Issue 277 - February, 16th 2017

News

"The major changes are that it uses a different (and external) parsing library for parsing PHP files, and it uses Composer to manage its external library dependencies."

Just a reminder that nominations are open until March 1, 2017. If you know someone that should be up for this reward don't wait any longer.

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Articles

In this article Campbell Vertesi provides an insightful look at the issues that can arise when you add the complexity of a decoupled architecture to your Drupal project.

Dries Buytaert provides some historical background on Drupal distributions and proclaims that they remain viable and relevant.

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Deeson's Mark Pavlitski shares how they are using Composer in their development and deployment workflow.

Dries Buytaert describes how Nasdaq is using Drupal 8 installation profiles to provide out of the box investor relation sites to their clients.

Mediacurrent's Zack Hawkins plots out a new approach to structuring your files for a theme. Zack is recommending centering around components instead of file types. I really like this approach, especially on larger projects with many components.

See what Bryan Ollendyke has cooked up over on the Penn State Drupal blog. Pretty interesting stuff.

Tutorials

A surprisingly simple task.

Jeff Geerling shows us how to use Tideways, a XHProf replacement in Drupal VM.

If you are using Composer with Drupal projects this post from Jeff Geerling is a must read.

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Projects

OpenDevShop is built on top of Aegir and in this post you can see how it can be used to give your dev team flexibility by making it easy to spin up new sites quickly. I've been testing it out myself and I'm impressed with it.

A great example of a company sponsoring development of a contributed module.

I'm a fan of DrupalVM but multiple people have been telling me that I should check out this project for those times when you want a simple and quick Drupal environment. Worth a look if you are looking to get a Drupal 8 site going locally in short order.

Releases

Podcasts