Planet Drupal

Preston So

February 11, 2020

Drush 10 is around the corner:

A brief history of Drush (part 1)

If you’ve touched a Drupal site at any point in the last ten years, it’s very likely you came into contact with Drush (a portmanteau of “Drupal shell”), the command-line interface (CLI) used by countless developers to work with Drupal without touching the administrative interface. Drush has a long and storied trajectory in the Drupal community. Though many other Drupal-associated projects have since been forgotten and relegated to the annals of Drupal history, Drush remains...

Preston So

February 05, 2020

Tag1 TeamTalk #009

Yjs Offline Apps with IndexedDB - Tag1 TeamTalk #009

What happens when you have a connection that isn't working, but you have a mission-critical document that you need to collaborate on with others around the world? The problem of peer-to-peer collaboration in an offline environment is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for editorial organizations and enterprises. As we continue to work on documents together on flights, trains, and buses, offline-first shared editing is now a base-level requirement rather than a pipe dream. Yjs, an...

Preston So

January 29, 2020

Decoupled Drupal - Strengths and Weaknesses -Tag1 Team Talk #008

Decoupled Drupal has been a trending topic for years in the Drupal community as well as the larger CMS landscape. What do some of the pioneers of the decoupled Drupal phenomenon have to say about what's possible today for decoupled Drupal and what's in store for practitioners? From GraphQL v4, to live preview with Gatsby, to Web Components browser support, innovation in the Drupal community is now quickly challenging some of our initial assumptions and...

Preston So

January 28, 2020

How to perform robust unit testing and functional testing

Modern testing: part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Testing is becoming an essential keyword and toolkit for developers and development teams who seek to architect and implement successful and performant websites. Thanks to the unprecedented growth in automated testing tools and continuous integration (CI) solutions for all manner of web projects, testing is now table stakes for any implementation. That said, many developers find automated...

Preston So

January 23, 2020

What's new and what's coming

How automatic updates finally made it to Drupal

Over the course of Drupal’s lengthy history, one of the most common feature requests has been automatic updates. A common complaint of Drupal site administrators, especially those who have smaller sites updated less frequently, is the frequently complex and drawn-out process required to update a Drupal site from one minor version to another. Updates can involve a difficult set of highly specific steps that challenge even the most patient among us. Indeed, many in the...

Preston So

January 22, 2020

Tag1 Team Talk #007

Peer-to-peer Collaborative Editing Using Yjs & WebRTC - Tag1 Team Talk #007

WebRTC, a protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer communication between two clients via the browser, is now supported by all modern browsers. Since its introduction it has mainly been used for web conferencing solutions, but WebRTC is ideal for a variety of other use cases as well. Because of its wide platform support, creating peer-to-peer applications for the web is now more straightforward than ever. But how do you manage many people working together at the same...

Preston So

January 22, 2020

How to foster a test-oriented development culture with code checks

Modern testing: part 2

Automated tests are rapidly becoming a prerequisite for successful web projects, owing to the proliferation of automated testing tools and an explosion of continuous integration (CI) services that ensure the success of web implementations. Nonetheless, for many developers who are new to the space, automated testing can be an intimidating and altogether novel area that causes more than a few groans at weekly meetings. Luckily, with the right development culture and testing infrastructure in place...

Preston So

January 17, 2020

Drush 10 - Tag1 Team Talk #006

With the release of Drupal 8.8, Drush is also due for an upgrade — to Drush 10. For this venerable command-line interface that many Drupal developers know intimately well, what does the present and future look like? What considerations should we keep in mind when selecting Drupal Console or Drush? What new features are available in Drush 10 that characterize the new CI/CD approaches we see expanding in the Drupal community? In this Tag1 Team...

Preston So

January 15, 2020

How to cultivate a culture of quality with automated testing

Modern testing: part 1

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Testing has become an important topic in recent years thanks to the explosion of testing technologies and continuous integration (CI) approaches but also due to the need for an ever-widening range of tests for a variety of use cases. For many developers, understanding how to incorporate testing into their development workflows can be daunting due to...

Moshe Weitzman

December 05, 2019

Enterprise, LDAP, and Drupal's Group Module

We are excited to share details about our recent integration with the Group module. By default, Group module stores group memberships in the Drupal database. For a recent project, our Client required that group memberships are canonically stored in their existing LDAP directory. That way, memberships may be re-used to control access to 3rd party applications like real-time chat, file sharing, etc. Group module provides a simple service, GroupMembershipLoader, that is responsible for loading all...