DrupalCamp London is, according to various sources and rumors, the biggest camp in Europe. It comes up in size next to BADCamp and DrupalCamp Mumbai, coming in the 400 to 600 attendee range. That is quite a feat, and I am honored to have gotten to experience this DrupalCamp.
Developers have many tools. We have version control systems, we have dependency management tools, we have build and task automation tools. What is one thing they all have in common? They are command line tools.
Drupal Commerce was started without writing any Drupal code. Our libraries set Drupal Commerce off the island before Drupal was able to support using third party library not provided by core.
When we talk about Drupal Commerce 2, the biggest we questions we get are not about features, but when you can start building with it. Well, the answer is and has been now! Drupal Commerce 2 has been in alpha and nearing beta. What does this mean?
As part of the push to deprecate SimpleTest and use PHPUnit as the test runner in Drupal 8, there is the \Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase class. The BrowserTestBase provides a Mink runner that tests web pages in Drupal. Unlike kernel tests, which require a database and can be run via PHPUnit as well, browser tests use your default database connection.
Plans were made back in December 2015 to put effort into the ability to support Migrate with Drupal Commerce to speed up adoption of Drupal Commerce 2.0. Commerce Migrate for Drupal 8 will provide migrations from Drupal Commerce 1.x, Ubercart for D6, and Ubercart for D7. Ideally, this module will also support other vendors, such as Magento and WooCommerce.
The process of debugging can be a difficult one, and the process of troubleshooting performance even more so. Luckily there are some great tools out there to help with improving the performance of web applications.
I've been working on a Docker tool for local environments and one of the tools is setting up the ability to easily generate flamegraphs. I figure the best test run would be to dive into some basic info on the performance of a front page load for a typical Drupal Commerce site.
