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: www.talkingDrupal.com/456

• 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 feature of DDEV
• What is next
• How can people get involved

• DDEV Project 2024 Plans
• DDEV Contributor Live Training
• Scheduling and signup
• DDEV Discord
• Nerdsniping XKCD Comic
• Level one learning xz utils

Andrew Berry - deviantintegral

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a local DDEV environment optimized for working on a Drupal contrib project? There’s a DDEV add-on for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • DDEV Drupal Contrib
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2023 by Moshe Weitzman, a Drupal core maintainer, and according to his resume the first American to contribute to Drupal
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-rc8
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - Lengthy README
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug
• Module features and usage
  • The add-on adds two ddev commands to help during setup:
  • ddev poser creates a temporary composer.contrib.json, adding drupal/core-recommended as a dev dependency. It also runs composer install and yarn install so that all dependencies are available
  • The additional ddev symlink-project command adds symlinks from your project files to an expected path within the custom modules directory of the installed version of Drupal
  • Once it’s set up, you can easily run tests locally exactly the way they will be run in GitlabCI. It’s also even easier to apply any of the automatic fixes that are available, for example by running ddev phpcbf or ddev eslint with the –fix flag
  • You can also commit the generated .ddev directory inside your project, to make it easy for other contributors to use the same tools
  • I will note that after running ddev poser I got errors trying to use composer to add any other projects to the local environment, for example to use admin toolbar for manual testing
  • That said, this is another great example of how the set of Drupal developer tools is always improving, and also illustrates to the power of DDEV’s add-ons

In Drupal, local tabs are an essential feature used to organize and display multiple configuration pages in a user-friendly manner.These tabs group related pages together, providing an intuitive and seamless navigation experience. 

By using local tabs, administrators and users can easily access different settings and configurations from a single interface without having to navigate through multiple pages. This functionality enhances the overall user experience, making it easier to manage and configure various aspects of a Drupal site efficiently. 

To create the Drupal Local tabs we can follow these steps:

Create A Module

• First Create a module  For example “custom_module” 
• After that define the custom_module.info.yml File in your custom module directory 

Structure:

custom_module/

 Custom_module.info.yml

• In this file, you can define your module name,  version, and description 

  name: Custom Module
                    description: Custom Module
                     type: module
                     core_version_requirement: ^8 || ^9 || ^10

Drupal 10.3 introduces a new experimental navigation module, offering a modern alternative to the traditional toolbar.

Key features of the new navigation bar:

• Located on the left side of the screen.
• Automatically expands menus on hover.
• Allows users to drill down through configuration pages.
• Replaces the top toolbar on the home page.

To try it out:

1. Ensure Drupal 10.3 is installed.
2. Go to “Extend” and search for “navigation”.
3. Install the “Navigation” module (not “Navigation top bar”).

The new navigation bar provides a fresh, modern look for Drupal sites. However, as an experimental module, it may contain bugs or undergo changes in future updates.

Those interested in exploring this new feature can install the navigation module and experience the updated interface firsthand.

What new Drupal 10.3 feature are you looking forward to?

Have you been thinking about making a serious improvement to the performance of your Drupal site? It is supposed that Drupal 11 will be released sometime this year. So, the upcoming version of Drupal promises many big moves on many grounds, including improving several core aspects of the CMS. Here's a brief overview of what’s new in Drupal 11:

Last week I wrote about how to set up Drupal for core contributing using DDEV. This week I decided to write a bash script so I wouldn't have to remember what I did, it would "just work".

Here's what I've been working on for my Drupal contributions this week. Thanks to Code Enigma for sponsoring the time to work on these.