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10 fieldable entity types every Drupal developer should know about

Published January 18, 2021
If you're a Drupal developer who designs information architecture (IA) for your organization and/or clients, then hopefully by now you're thinking in terms of entities, bundles, and fields, not limiting your thinking to only content types. This article isn't going to dive into a lesson explaining what entities, bundles, and fields are as there is plenty of great documentation about that . Back in the Drupal 7 and earlier days, it was common to look at an organization's data and map it almost exclusively to only content types (maybe a few vocabularies as well). With Drupal 8's and 9's Entity

entityQuery examples for everybody

Published July 11, 2020
This blog post was updated October, 2022 with new information about accessCheck, an example for loading fully populate node objects from entityQuery results, and the loadByProperties() method. The Drupal::entityQuery method has been a staple for Drupal developers since the early days of Drupal 8. But without a dedicated drupal.org Documentation page , it can be difficult for new developers to get a really good handle on. I've been using the QueryInterface API documentation for a few years now as my go-to source for help with using entityQuery, but a couple of weeks ago I stumbled on a feature of entityQuery

Composer Plugins for Drupal Developers

Published June 20, 2020
As always-evolving Drupal developers, we have been in the process of moving towards having a Composer -based workflow for managing our Drupal project codebases. While it is (normally) an easy jump from "drush dl" to "composer require" for Drupal contrib modules and themes, there's another significant opportunity for us to take advantage of during this evolution that should be considered. We are all familiar with the concept that Drupal modules extend the functionality of Drupal site; we should also be embracing the fact that there is a whole class of Composer dependencies that extend Composer's functionality. These are appropriately called

An effective method of using Config Split

Published June 7, 2020
If you use Drupal 8's configuration system, then you know that one of the trickiest parts of using it effectively is managing configuration on a per-environment basis. Luckily, the Config Split module makes it easy to manage different configurations in different environments, but how to set it up properly isn't always readily apparent. In this blog post, I'll provide one method for setting up Config Split in an efficient manner, with splits for local, remote development, and production environments. The goal is to be able to set things up right the first time, without having to worry about manually enabling/disabling

Announcing "Composer Basics for Drupal Developers" - a 7-hour, online workshop

Published June 3, 2020
We recently debuted our brand-new, 7-hour, live-instructor, online Composer Basics for Drupal Developers workshop to alumni of our flagship Drupal Career Online program. We've been gearing up for this launch for well over a year now, teaching select parts of the curriculum as part of Drupal Career Online, at various Drupal events as in-person workshops and presentations, as well as our own experience working with Composer with our clients. We believe that the result is the most complete and best-practice-focused Composer training available for Drupal developers today. (And a super-helpful 50-page reference document that comes with the course.) Not only

Drupal 8 and Composer - working with cloned dependencies

Published June 8, 2019

If you use the Drupal Composer Drupal Project template for managing your Drupal 8 site’s codebase, and you commit dependencies to your Git repository, then you’ve probably run into issues involving cloned dependencies. Sometimes when requiring a dependency via Composer, you end up with a cloned version (which includes a .git directory) instead of a release version. 

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