Talking Drupal #473 - Color in CSS with Sass

Today we are talking about Color with CSS, Sass, and bringing it all into Drupal with guest Aubrey Sambor . We’ll also cover Navigation Extra Tools as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/473

Topics

• A little career background
• Why Front end
• Do you prefer JS or CSS
• How do colors work today in CSS
• Is this different from the past
• What is gamut
• Can color functions help with contrast
• What color functions make you the most excited
• Is Sass still a thing
• Do you use preprocessors with color functions
• Post CSS in Drupal
• Any modules you can recommend to help with CSS colros
• Any benefit for single directory compontents or web components

Resources

• New England Drupal Camp
• Color in CSS: using new spaces, functions, and techniques to make your site shine
• Text wrap
• Gamut
• Do you still need Sass in 2023

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you been using the new Navigation module in Drupal core, but wanted some of the useful links previously available in the Admin Toolbar Tools submodule? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Navigation Extra Tools
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2024, less than a week ago by friend of the podcast James Shields aka lostcarpark
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta3 which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, already 3 releases
  • Security coverage - too new, but hopefully will have in time
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 8 “open” issues, 4 of which are bugs, but all but one of which are now marked as fixed with the latest release
  • Usage stats:
• 12 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module enabled, the new left side Navigation menu available in Drupal core will include links to clear caches (all or a specific cache), run cron, and run database updates
  • It’s a good example of a module that does something very specific and very useful, so I wanted to share it with our listeners as quickly as possible
  • I know these functions are ones I’ve been missing in my own Drupal 11 dev sites, so I’m looking forward to using this module right away