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Dec 03, 2019

Local development with GatsbyJS and Drupal

As I have begun working with GatsbyJS once again, I am trying to find a way to work with GatsbyJS and Drupal locally in a somewhat streamlined fashion. Honestly, serving Drupal over PHP's built-in server and using the gatsby develop and gatsby serve command work just fine. But, I love tooling.

#24for2019  #drupal  #gatsbyjs
Dec 02, 2019

Improving the handling of Drupal JSON:API hyperlinks in GatsbyJS

I have been tracking down an interesting quirk when parsing JSON:API resources with the Drupal source plugin for GatsbyJS. I have a test environment with the JSON:API Schema module installed and was receiving errors about data in the links property.

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Dec 01, 2019

Revisiting GatsbyJS and Drupal Commerce

The Drupal community has taken to GatsbyJS, the React framework that lets you easily build static (and more) websites (or applications.) And, honestly, this makes a lot of sense. Drupal is a great content management system and it even has ways to create microsites within one installation (thanks to techniques like the Domain module.)

#24for2019  #drupal  #gatsbyjs  #decoupled
Nov 21, 2019

Gearing up for the 2020 conference season

It's time to start gearing up for the 2020 conference season! 2019 isn't over yet, but I'm pretty excited about the next conference season. A lot of things are happening in Drupal. Drupal 9 will be released in June 2020! That means each conference will be abuzz with contributions and decision making to make this a great release and smooth transition. Here are some events I have my eyes on!
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Aug 19, 2019

I just freed up 3GB of disk space due to random node_modules directories laying around old projects and experiments on my computer.

The project is called npkill and I found it on Reddit today. I have used disk analysis tools before, but they have made it hard to find small files which eat disk. Yes, Grand Perspective helped me find out I had 15 instances of Chromedriver due to node_modules, due to different open source and client projects. But npkill has helped be truly reclaim my disk.

Aug 17, 2019

Comments like these make the Drupal community such an awesome open source ecosystem to work within. Thanks, Mateu ?

Jul 06, 2019

Using ReactPHP to run Drupal tasks

ReactPHP is an event-driven non-blocking PHP framework that allows to you work in a long-running script through an event loop. At its core, ReactPHP provides an event loop and utilities to trigger events at specific intervals and run your code. This is different than normal PHP script execution which of a short lifecycle and per individual requests.  ReactPHP has been used to build web server applications, web socket servers and more. But, what if we used ReactPHP to execute operations and tasks on a Drupal application?
#drupal  #reactphp  #php