Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

This is the first of two blogs detailing how to build a middleware leveraging ReactPHP to consume data from an API, normalize it, and then push that data into Drupal through JSON:API. In this example will be grabbing data from the PokéAPI.

The other week, I was asked about how I maintain my PHPUnit config file for my Drupal projects. When running Drupal's PHPUnit test suites, you typically copy and modify the distribution phpunit.xml.dist file which lives in the web/core subdirectory. There is just one problem.

Sunday, July 5th, I did my livestream exploring DDEV-Live. DDEV-Live is the hosting counterpart of DDEV-Local. I use DDEV-Local as my local development stack, and I love its simplicity for running local environments with Docker.

I got an email today that CodeFund was shutting down. Two years ago I started using CodeFund to provide ethical advertising target towards a developer audience on my website. I used it as a way to supplement my income for my additional off-hours time spent on open source.

This Sunday (July 5th) at 10 am, I am going to sign up for DDEV-Live and give the hosting platform a try. I am going to go from zero to launch with a fresh Drupal 9 project. I was given a special coupon code that I will give out for folks that also want to sign up for DDEV-Live!

Here are some links from throughout the month that I found interesting.

This past Sunday I did a livestream where I tried out the new issue forks functionality on Drupal.org. The feature is currently beta and project maintainers need to opt-in for the functionality. At the moment you can create a repository fork for an issue, create a work branch, and commit to that branch.