Talking Drupal #460 - Preconfigured CMS Solutions
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Preconfigured CMS Solutions, How they can help your business, and The best way to build them in Drupal with guests Baddy Sonja Breidert and Dr. Christoph Breidert. For show notes visit: Topics Spain What is a Preconfigured CMS / Drupal Solution Who is the audience What business objectives can preconfigured solutions solve What are the ingredients How do you manage theming How do you manage customized design What do you do if your client has a need that your preconfigured solution does not solve What about Starshot Did the two of you meet over Drupal How do you...
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Talking Drupal #459 - Off The Cuff 8
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Config Actions, The Panels Favorite Drupal Modules, and Drupal Contribution. We’ll also cover Transform API as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics New Config Action: Place Block Favorite Contrib modules Slack channels Preparing for Drupal 11 Drupal events Resources Hosts Nic Laflin - John Picozzi - Martin Anderson-Clutz - Baddý Sonja Breidert - MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - Brief description: Have you ever wanted to expose your Drupal site’s data as JSON using view modes, formatters, blocks, and more?...
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Talking Drupal #458 - Drupal & Next.js
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Next.js, what it is, and how to integrate it with Drupal with guest John Albin Wilkins. We’ll also cover Next.js Webform as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is Next.js What kind of server do you need How is it used on the web Does it only work on react based systems Why would someone want to integrate with Drupal When changes are made in the content how do you update the app On the module page there are a lot of references to Preview, is this something Next does well What is server side rendering How does Next work with menus and views...
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Talking Drupal #457 - Drupal Architecture
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupal Architecture, Common Site Building questions, and How we solve things with Drupal with guest Alexander Varwijk. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.3 as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Where do you start when thinking about a new site or feature. Where is the line for extending vs forking Do you have solutions that you default to when building a feature Do you find people come to Drupal with specific third party requirements What do you think about Headless When do you choose to contribute a new module to Drupal Will recipes change your...
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Talking Drupal #456 - DDEV Grows Up
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about DDEV, The DDEV Community, and It’s Future Sustainability with guest Randy Fay and Andrew Berry. We’ll also cover DDEV Drupal Contrib as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is DDEV In March you posted the DDEV Project Plan for 2024, what is the contributor training initiative DDEV has grown rapidly over the past few years, what do you attribute that to You seem to be the face of DDEV, who else is involved How is DDEV funded What happens when you retire Does the DDEV Foundation have employees What is DDEV coded in What is your favorite...
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Talking Drupal #455 - Top 5 uses of AI for Drupal
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about AI Tips for Drupal Devs, AI Best Practices, and Drupal Droid with guest Mike Miles. We’ll also cover AI interpolator as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Top 5 tips Idea Generation (Ideation) Code Generation Debugging Content Generation Technical Explanations How do you suggest people use AI for Ideation Is MIT Sloan using AI to help with Drupal Development Does that code get directly inserted into your sites What are some common pitfalls Is your team using AI for debugging Any best practices you have found helping when working with AI Is...
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Talking Drupal #454 - Drupal API Client
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupal’s API Client, What it does, and why you might need it with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Iconify Icons as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Brian what is new with you! Elevator pitch for Drupal API Client What was Pitchburg like Is this a normalizer for JSON API Why is this JS framework agnostic What is typescript and how does Drupal API Client use it Looking at the quick start guide the second step is to create an instance, where do you do that Who is this module for Will Drupal API Client be added to core What is on the...
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Talking Drupal #453 - Urban Institute
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Urban Institute, What they do, and How they use Drupal with guest Josh Miller. We’ll also cover Access Unpublished as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Tell us how you got started with Drupal What does Urban Institute do What do you do at Urban Institute Number of people on dev team Number of sites How does Urban Institute use Drupal Are you using a custom upstream How many sites on Drupal 7 Are you doing Page builders What kind of front end tools do you use What is the preferred local development tool Why did Urban Institute choose...
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Talking Drupal #452 - Starshot & Experience Builder
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #452 Starshot & Experience Builder. For show notes visit: Topics What is Starshot What is Experience builder How will Starshot build on Drupal Core Will Experience builder be added to Core Listener thejimbirch: When will people hear about their pledge Listener brook_heaton: Will experience builder be compatible with layout builder Will Experience builder allow people to style content Listener Matthieu Scarset Who is Starshot trying to compete...
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Talking Drupal #451 - Just Say Drupal
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing with version numbers, what competitors are doing, and Learning to Just Saying Drupal with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Trash as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is the premise of Just Say Drupal Why do you think it is important to drop the version number Where do you suggest we drop verison numbers In sales, if you don't mention version, how do you talk to clients Why could using version numbers be detrimental What do you suggest we call Drupal 7 Have you spoken to the Drupal marketing team At Drupalcon they...
info_outlineToday we are talking about Violinist.io, Managing Composer Dependencies, and automation with guest Eirik Morland. We’ll also cover Composer Patches as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/443
Topics
- What is Violinist.io
- How does it work
- How much technical knowledge do you need
- Is this a security risk
- How much does it cost
- Patron question: Peter: Difference between violinist and dependabot
- What are the major differences in plans
- Who is the ideal user
- Can you self host
- Can this help with Drupal 11 readiness
- Complementary tools
- Notable users
- Why did you start this
- What is it like using Drupal for a SAAS
- Is it open source
- Pros and cons of open source for a SAAS
- How can the community support
- What is on the roadmap
Resources
Guests
Eirik Morland - violinist.io eiriksm
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a simple way to manage patches to Drupal core and your contrib projects? There’s a composer plugin for that
- Module name/project name:
- https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
- Composer Patches
- Brief history
- How old:created in Apr 2015 by Cameron Weagans
- Versions available: 1.7.3 and 2.0.0-beta2
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, beta2 release was a little over a month ago
- Test coverage
- Has a documentation site, as well as a COMMANDS markdown file in the repo to help you get started
- Number of open issues: 10, 2 of which are bugs
- Usage stats:
- It’s been installed over 42 million times and it’s approaching 43 thousand installs per day, according to a recent blog post
- Module features and usage
- Using the plugin is simple, you require cweagans/composer-patches the same way you would a Drupal contrib project. The important difference is that composer will ask you if you trust composer-patches to make changes to your codebase. Once you grant that, the plugin is ready to start applying patches
- You can specify what patches you want applied by adding a patches section to the extra section of your project’s composer.json file, or by adding a patches.json file
- Each patch can be specified using a URL or a path relative to the JSON file
- In theory it’s possible to have composer patches pulled directly from the diff in a merge request, but this is a significant security risk and should always be avoided
- The first beta release for the 2.0 branch actually dropped support for dependency patch resolution, noting that it had become the source of most support requests. In the end the community made it clear that they would resist upgrading without this capability, so the most recent beta2 release adds it back in.
- Finally, on his website cweagans.net Cameron mentions that he’s currently looking for full-time employment. So if your organization relies heavily on composer in general or composer-patches specifically, consider reaching out to him