Articles about Drupal and Technology
We publish articles about Drupal and many other technologies.
Composer 2 and Drupal
Composer 2 was released 4 months ago and it is an impressive improvement especially in terms of performance. Drupal is ready to be managed by Composer 2, and you should start using it as soon as possible.
Drupal Updater: Streamlining Drupal Maintenance Updates from CLI
Maintaining a Drupal website involves keeping multiple components up to date, including Drupal modules, themes, vendor packages, and external libraries. This article introduces the Drupal Updater, a console tool helper designed to automate the tedious process of updating these components...
Updating Drupal to PHP 8
Almost 2 years ago PHP 7.4 reached its end-of-life, and in a little less than 2 months it will no longer have security support as well. Consequently, in recent months a large number of clients and providers have felt the...
How to develop a Pomodoro application for Slack in PHP
Slack has a very wide API to pull from. In this article, you will learn in a simple way in a few steps how to code a Pomodoro application based on PHP without having too much knowledge about the technologies...
Drupal 8, Search API and Solr 8
We created an easy example to run Drupal 8 with Search API and Solr 8. The current project is released as practical example to setup and run a sandbox environment. We created a git repository with a template to run...
Creating a command using Drupal Console
How to create Drupal Console commands, a tool for Drupal 8 that allows us to make certain development tasks easier.
Ensuring software quality: Static code analysers
Static code analysers allow us to audit/measure the state of the project's code in an objective manner.
Understand your project's site structure and data with Xray Audit
At Metadrop, we regularly work on complex projects such as multisites with over 20 sites, numerous contributed and custom-installed modules, various types of profiles, and where Config Split is used for configuration management. Dealing with this complexity can be challenging...
Scrollytelling using scrollama.js, CSS and best practices
For some years now, a number of techniques have been quite popular with one thing in common: the introduction of animations or interactions triggered by the user's scrolling through the page. In this article we show you how to implement...
Import your content with Feeds with Drupal
Feeds provide a friendly UI so that we can import your content to Drupal.
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