The migrate system in Drupal 8 is very powerful. In very few lines of code, you can hook into various data sources, process and import data into Drupal.
One such important piece of data is carrying over URLs and redirects for legacy content. The good news is, redirects are entities in...
Having worked on a project this year that makes extensive use of Migrate in Drupal 8, there are some considerations to have when running them on a remote system.
In our case, we have a half dozen ongoing migrations that run every night. These are JSON files that are delivered from a...
On most of the projects I work on these days, I typically have requirements at a certain point where data from the application has to meet ReactJS in the frontend at the theme layer.
We have a very good system in place for working with the theme layer, the backend, and frontend...
In an earlier post I demonstrated how to add some extra functionality on a node type in Drupal 8 via the ThirdPartySettings API. Its use is not just limited to core configuration types - it works for most (if not all)...
Upon the relaunch of my site, I decided to go with no comments. It is not a mistake that they are not here.
Social media and comment systems are ruining the internet. There was a time when they added value and discussion, but mostly it has all devolved into attacks, hate, flame wars,...
I've done a lot of migrations in Drupal 5, 6, and 7. Migrating into 5 and 6 was pretty rough. Version 5 basically required raw script power and chunked looping. 6 did as well. By the time I had to do migrations for projects again, I was well into developing projects in Drupal 7.
At that...
The ThirdPartySettings API in Drupal 8 is a useful way to store extra configuration or information to a configuration entity. This allows...
I see people ask or state they are confused about how to deploy Drupal 8 when most (if not all) hosting platforms disallow running tools like Composer or NPM in production. Since Composer is the defacto package management tool for PHP, the natural inclination is to push your code changes and...
After many, many years of running on various static site platforms, I've relaunched my blog on Drupal 8.
After returning home from vacation in the Virgin Islands, I noticed my site had an old email address in the metadata of the site. For 5 years I never noticed this. It...
Shortly after publishing my last post about Erlang, I noticed a bug in the code which would not have happened if I wrote unit test(s) first. I did not do that simply because I just started learning, and didn’t want too many barriers up front to getting started (its hard to write tests when you...