Expert Drupal & Tech Articles

Expert Drupal & Tech Articles

Practical articles and deep dives on Drupal development, AI, web accessibility, DevOps, and software quality from Metadrop's engineering team.

Engineering knowledge from real Drupal projects

Everything published here comes from production work: the contributed modules we maintain on drupal.org, the migrations, upgrades, and audits we deliver for enterprise clients, and the tooling we build to raise quality on every project. We document what we learn so your team can apply it.

Topics we write about regularly:

  • Drupal development — architecture, contributed modules, upgrades, migrations, and performance
  • AI and automation — practical AI integrations in Drupal, LLM tooling, and editorial workflows
  • Web accessibility — WCAG compliance and the European Accessibility Act
  • DevOps and infrastructure — hosting, CI/CD, local environments, and platform migrations
  • Software quality — testing strategy, Behat, PHPUnit, and QA tooling
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  • Drupal Dev Days Vienna 2023 is next week!

    Drupal Dev Days takes place next week in Vienna, let's explore this event, the Mautic Open Source Marketing Automation tool, the importance of FLOSS and three sessions Metadrop is sharing during the event.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • Successful QA testing and issue reporting

    Within the web development workflow we follow at Metadrop, one of the crucial steps is the review of the implemented task's quality. This process aims to detect possible errors or bugs in order to correct them before the work reaches...

  • 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...

    • Photo Luis

      Luis Ruiz

  • 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...

    • Alberto Ortega

      Alberto Ortega

    • Eduardo Morales Alberti

      Eduardo Morales

  • The form API at the DrupalCon Prague

    The Form API is a Drupal powerful system to create all kinds of forms. However, given its complexity, it may be hard to completely understand it, and it is easy to end up fighting against it when building complex forms...

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • 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...

  • 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.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • DrupalCon Europe 2020

    Metadrop was at DrupalCon Europe 2020 talking about self-management on remote environments and reactive programming.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

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