Saturday, October 17

Beyond Static: The JAMstack is much more than just static sites

Content editors love the content management workflows that a CMS provides out-of-the-box. Developers love the experience of using modern front end tools like Gatsby. Can we have the best of both worlds? Yes, we can. However, opting for a decoupled architecture requires a mindset shift. How you implement this, it will introduce different challenges to overcome and factors to consider.

Maximizing Composer

As a (aspiring or otherwise) professional Drupal developer, taking full advantage of what Composer has to offer can pay dividends. This session will provide some tips and tricks for using Composer with Drupal 8 and 9 projects, as well as provide a sneak peak at the improvements in the next major version of Composer.

Understanding React.js

React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal has recently adopted the library to create admin interfaces. This session aims to explain the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. Many examples will be presented to help you understand it and why it is so powerful. During the talk you will learn how to convert a static site into a dynamic React application.

Layout Builder Components Can Break Your Site—Part 2

This is Part 2 of the topic I delivered at DrupalCon 2020: Layout Builder components can break your site. Here's how. Watch Part 1 first to understand the problem that site builders, back-end developers and site architects face to ensure that several critical features of Drupal, including page revisioning, Workflow and Workspaces, don't break. Here is some feedback from the first session:

Simplifying the Drupal frontend with Single File Components

Doing front-end in Drupal can be confusing, for experienced developers and newcomers alike. A task like "Add the 'blue' class to all Articles and style it" might take modifying a preprocess function, adding a Twig template, compiling SASS, and more.

Documentation is like a plant - you need to tend to it!

Documentation is often the part of a project or organization that gets ignored or left behind. At best, it’s created as a deliverable and then set aside to collect dust, never updated, amended, or edited. But documentation is a living thing! It’s like a plant, you need to water it and tend to it and keep it alive! 

The Webform module's greatest hits, combined by an AMA

For the past four years, dozens of new and cool features have been added to the Webform module for Drupal 8. This presentation will walk-thru the Webform module's greatest hits with some rare gems from the feature vault. You are guaranteed to learn something new about the Webform module, especially because you can "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) during this online presentation. Participants are invited to help answer people's questions via chat by posting recommendations and links.

What can the Group module do for me?

Learn the power of the Group module for Drupal 8. This session will show you how to create communities with your website.  The Group module topics to be covered: Introduction to Drupal's Group module Strengths and Weaknesses as compared to D7 Organic Groups Use Cases for Groups Expect to learn Setting up Group types Managing Group content Sharing (or not sharing) media and content Group menus Group Workflow Presenters

Building your Existing Drupal 8/9 Project with Docksal

Long gone are the days when writing code was all you needed to develop awesome apps. Nowadays, developers should be able to use multiple languages, frameworks and architectures – and on top of that – they need to know how to use several tools and products to make their lives easier. One of these products is Docksal. It is Docker powered environment for web development on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Best practices for integrating components with Drupal 8 or 9

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