Today I launched a new service, matching available Drupal developers with recruiters and agencies that are hiring.

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Sessions & Discussions

• Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 17:30 to 18:15
  • The future of DrupalCamps - Hosting in-person events in the post-COVID era
• Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 08:45 to 09:30
  • Bridging the gap: Unlocking Non-Code Contributions | Drupal Events
• Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 12:30 to 13:15
  • Revisiting how to organise a Drupal event in your city or country: curiosities, tips and lessons learned
• Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 15:15 to 16:00
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We talk with Ryan Price from ICF about a recent project he worked on involving updating a legacy Drupal 7 install with modern Drupal 10 techniques. 

URLs mentioned

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• https://www.studyabroadfoundation.org/

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With DrupalCon Barcelona fast approaching I thought it was time to share some more updates on the progress of the events recipe for Drupal CMS a.k.a. the Starshot initiative.

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Something that came up in my discussion with Dave Liddament for the Beyond Blocks podcast was that there seem to be two ways of writing PHP code.

One is writing strict code by enabling strict typing, using parameter and return types, and leveraging tools like PHPStan at a high level to analyze code.

The other is no not use types and to use a more "duck typing" approach.

The term "visual debt" came from a video discussing the pros and cons of these approaches.

The same can be said for JavaScript and TypeScript, but PHP can do both and gives the Developer the choice of how they write their code.

I prefer writing strict code and for my code to be as explicit as possible, but I appreciate not everyone does and I like that PHP caters for both.

How do you write your PHP code?

This week, I learned there is a Drupalisms Working Group - a group focused on de-jargoning Drupal and making it easier for newcomers to Drupal by removing some of the Drupal-specific language.

From the introductory blog post:

If you’re familiar with Drupal, you will have learned its language. You will be familiar with words like Views, Blocks and Paragraphs, and you will appreciate their respective features and functions. But for those new to Drupal, getting to grips with what words mean can mean a steep learning curve.

Drupalisms is something I've discussed on a few episodes of Beyond Blocks, including the most recent episode and the seonc with Eirik Morland.

I didn't realise there were BoF sessions about this at DrupalCon Lille last year, so I'm hoping there will be more next week in Barcelona.

Anything that helps Drupal easier to use and adopt is a good thing.

With DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 only two weeks later, the focus this week is on tying up loose ends. That already started last week, but of the milestone 0.1.0 priorities that product lead Lauri identified, 15 are still left after last week: we need to fix 1.5/day to get to zero.

Major loose ends

I titled last week’s update drag and drop party because there were so many improvements on that front. But one critical piece was still missing: it was painful to drag components into locations that are difficult to visualize: top and bottom of slots, even more so for adjacent slots. Bálint “balintbrews” Kléri brought one additional improvement:

Your browser does not support playing videos. You can download it instead.

Beautiful isn’t it?! I couldn’t say it better than Jesse “jessebaker” Baker in his review: This is such a marked improvement and honestly it’s already better than I dared hope it would be, especially this early. Excellent work.

Ben “bnjmnm” Mullins finished the highest-impact loose end: he ensured all single-value field types work correctly.

This week, Ben finally had the chance to introduce sorely needed end-to-end (E2E) test coverage, which ensures that a whole range of field widgets work as expected not only in the original field widget sense (focus on server side), but also the live update sense (focus on client side): the Redux integration must be aware of when the values the user is typing is valid. More work remains to be done there, but the introduction of the prop-types.cy.js E2E Cypress test marks a significant milestone! 1 Next steps will be tracked in the corresponding meta/plan issue.

Lots of usability bugs squashed

Jesse coordinated the squashing of many usability bugs — not really broken things, but things that should happen to not have a clunky UX:

• Omkar “omkar-pd” Deshpande and Jesse: #3470933: Close the insert panel when clicking outside the panel — why force the users to do extra clicking when we can close something when user actions indicate a UI piece is not currently necessary?
• Amine “boulaffasae” Boulaffass and Bálint: #3472634: Component List doesn’t scroll — when installing additional Single Directory Components (SDCs), the list can grow beyond the viewport height and this fix allows accessing those :D
• Gaurav “gauravvvv”, Shyam “shyam_bhatt” Bhatt and Bálint: #3472488: The preview container height will overflow outside the canvas — a fixed canvas size prevented building tall pages!
• Utkarsh “utkarsh_33” and fazilitehreem expanded upon the right-click support they added last week: #3472053: Show context menu on right clicking components in the Layers panel — because what is possible on the canvas/in the preview, should also be possible in the “layers” panel

Missed a prior week? See all posts tagged Experience Builder.

Goal: make it possible to follow high-level progress by reading ~5 minutes/week. I hope this empowers more people to contribute when their unique skills can best be put to use!

For more detail, join the #experience-builder Slack channel. Check out the pinned items at the top!

Back-end improvements

• Feliksas “f.mazeikis” Mazeikis landed the most important server-side change of the week: surfacing the reason for an SDC not being available in XB. This is obviously critical information for SDC developers. More needs to happen in this space, but this in particular is a huge productivity boost for the people working on the Starshot Demo Design System, because that too will be featured in the Driesnote at DrupalCon Barcelona :)

• Ted “tedbow” Bowman and Dave “longwave” Long made the most critical response a CacheableJsonResponse instead of a JsonResponse, which means it can now be served by Drupal’s Dynamic Page Cache while guaranteeing up-to-date information. Similar to the “component list scroll” bug fix above, this was only perceptible with many SDCs installed (and Xdebug enabled), but it still is an important leap forward. 2
• Deepak “deepakkm” Mishra, Ted and I added support for propless SDCs — a silly oversight :D
• Finally, I clarified the “shape matching bits” by improving the docs, code organization (it dates back to the earliest XB days!), making its location and experimental nature more explicit in the CODEOWNERS file, and introducing a Shape matching issue queue component. 3

Unfortunately, during the week, Lauri prioritized several more issues, so we ended this week with … 12 — only 3 fewer than we started with :/ That means we’ll need to land >2/day in the next week to get to zero. Fortunately, most of those twelve are already pretty far along.

Who of you have ever been able to chill towards a deadline, and how did you do that? :D

Week 18 was September 9–15, 2024.

1. It is not comprehensive yet, but then again, nor does Drupal core have field types that can populate all of the possible prop shapes that Single Directory Components’ JSON schema are able to express. Next steps here are growing the test coverage to reach full confidence for the prop shapes that we do have field types + widgets for. ↩︎

2. And as Ben pointed out: this is very cacheable by design, so it’s not a case of premature optimization. ↩︎

3. I think it’d be good to have each area in the CODEOWNERS file correspond to an issue queue component. Thoughts? Let me know! ↩︎

• Drupal
• Acquia
• Experience Builder

• Drag a component and drop it into truly any location.
• Initial UI that shows the reason why an SDC is not available in XB.