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It's the end of 2023! The end of the year is a special time. We can look at the calendar and say, "I can't believe the year is already over," and "This has only been one year?" I always do an end-of-year review of my notebooks to remind myself of the year's events, successes, or failures to grow from next year. A lot happened this year. Here are a few things I wanted to share.
I'm excited to announce a new feature coming to phpstan-drupal that already exists for PHPStan. PHPStan has an online playground to run and test analysis results. Soon, we will have one for phpstan-drupal!
The Drupal Association has been working on a monumental effort to migrate away from our bespoke DrupalCI continuous integration system to GitLab CI as part of the GitLab Acceleration Initiative.
Last week, there was a trending hot take on social media: why bother with HTTP methods beyond GET and POST in your API? The argument was that URLs are cheap, so why not create more API URLs rather than using the same URL with different HTTP methods? It was a very interesting thought process around API design because it is the opposite of my thinking.
Retrofit for Drupal now has documentation to explain what Drupal 7 hooks and APIs are supported. Retrofit for Drupal provides backward compatibility layers to run legacy Drupal 7 code in your sites using Drupal 10 and beyond.
One of the major problems observed in getting contributed modules Drupal 10 compatible was maintaining support for Drupal 9.5, which remains in security support (or remained if it is now past November 1, 2023.) Contributed modules should be compatible with all security-supported versions of Drupal core or more if they so choose.
I just finished reading Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development published by Packt Publishing by Luca Lusso. Don't let the title make you think it is about theme development.
Last week, I drove up to Minneapolis and attended Twin Cities DrupalCamp. I have only made it to the conference once before, way back in 2016, to present about the beginnings of Drupal Commerce 2.x.
I finally took a look at writing a custom live template with PhpStorm. I've used them several times to automate scaffolding a foreach statement or other random suggestions that a Tab keypress leads to automated scaffolded code. But I never really dove in to see how they work or could be customized.
In Drupal, with themes, you can override default template output by copying, pasting, and customizing those templates. It works, but how? I thought I always knew how this worked. But I realized I didn't when I dove into supporting Drupal 7 themes with Retrofit.