Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

Earlier this month, I signed up as a sponsor for Jeff Geerling on GitHub.

I wanted to take the time to write about an initiative taken by AmyJune Hineline. AmyJune is the Open Source Community Ambassador for Kanopi Studios. She has taken upon herself to work with Drupal camps and make sure they have a Contribution Day sponsor tiers and that a portion of that sponsorship goes to community tools. Through her work, SimplyTest.me and ContribKanban have received funding to ensure they have maintenance and feature development.

Every year I dedicate a block of time to provide new features and improve ContribKanban, beyond regular maintenance to keep dependencies up to date. This year brings some significant changes, which I am excited about!

Heads up! After using this, I have found myself needing to run `gatsby clean` before `develop` or `build` when using this approach.

Well. I had a great idea to use Gatsby's StaticQuery component for catalogs and product displays. I was hoping to also use the useStaticQuery hook for experimenting with shadowing. There is just one problem.

Even though Gatsby is a static site generator, it can be used to build dynamic applications. Gatsby is, after all, just a framework for building a React application. It just happens to be extremely opinionated and generates an artifact that is a static site. To me, "dynamic" means that an application maintains some form of state.

At the beginning of December, Ondřej Mirtes released PHPStan 0.12! 0.12 brought about many changes. However, 🙃, it broke the PHPStan Drupal extension.

While fiddling with Gatsby, I wondered: what about fetching data from Drupal to push into the siteMetadata array? In the gatsby-config.js API file, you can specify metadata about the site.

I just discovered that there are some problems when working with the gatsby-source-drupal plugin. There is already a problem where empty data doesn't generate the schema type (even if it has no fields.) There is another one if you only receive one value.