Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about Drupal’s API Client, What it does, and why you might need it with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Iconify Icons as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/454

• Brian what is new with you!
• Elevator pitch for Drupal API Client
• What was Pitchburg like
• Is this a normalizer for JSON API
• Why is this JS framework agnostic
• What is typescript and how does Drupal API Client use it
• Looking at the quick start guide the second step is to create an instance, where do you do that
• Who is this module for
• Will Drupal API Client be added to core
• What is on the roadmap
• How does this relate to Chapter Three and Next.js
• What is the spin up time
• How will Starshot impact this

• API Client
• API Client Quick Start
• NPM Packages
• Ideas Queue Issue - Promote API client packages to Drupal NPM namespace
• Drupal at your Fingertips
• Open collective
• JSON API Schema

Brian Perry - brianperry.dev brianperry

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to empower your content creators to place icons from a massive, open source library into your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Iconify Icons
• Brief history
  • How old: created on May 22 of this year, so less than two weeks ago, by David Galeano (gxleano) of Factorial
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, right up to Drupal 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site
• Module features and usage
  • Out of the box the module provides both a CKEditor button for placing icons, and a new field type. It even provides a new form element that can be used in custom forms, a render element you can use to programmatically put an icon into something like a custom block, and a Twig extension that can be used to place icons in templates.
  • According to the project page, the Iconify icon library includes more than 200,000 icons, though in my limited experimentation it seems like there are some duplicates between icon sets. Speaking of which, Iconify provides over 150 different icon sets, and in this module’s configuration you can specify which ones you want to be available on your site.
  • Placing an icon is as simple as using an autocomplete to search the names of the icons available, and a preview is shown for each of the matches found.
  • The field widget and the CKEditor button both give content creators options for what size and color to use for the icons. For myself I’d prefer to lock some of those options down (for example, make that part of the field’s display configuration instead), but I’m sure that could be added as part of a different widget.
  • I can think of a few Drupal sites I’ve built where this would have been really handy, so I’m interested to ...

Today we are talking about The Ripple Makers program, How it benefits Drupal Association members, and Why it’s important to Drupal with guest Julia Kranzthor. We’ll also cover Migrate Boost as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/480

• What is Ripple Makers
  • Taxes
• Why did the Drupal Association (DA) membership program need overhauling
• Are DA individual memberships different than Ripple Makers
• Do people have to sign up if they are already a DA member
• Coming up with the benefits
• Where did the name come from
• Does this have new benefits
• What has the impact been

• Ripple Makers
  • https://www.drupal.org/association/RippleMakers
  • https://www.classy.org/give/386338#!/donation/checkout
• Drupal Certified Partner (DCP)
• Drupal staff page
• Migrate Boost
  • 'workbench_moderation',
  • 'pathauto',
  • 'xmlsitemap',
  • 'search_api',
  • 'search_api_algolia',

Julia Kranzthor - JR_KThor

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to disable hooks to accelerate your Drupal migration? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Migrate Boost
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2023 by our own Nic Laflin
  • Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation README / project page have instructions
  • Number of open issues: none!
• Usage stats:
  • 119 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Having hooks fire during a migration can significantly slow down the process, and what’s worse, it can also cause some significant problems, for example sending email notifications every time a node is created
  • You disable hooks by defining an array in your settings.php file, either an array of specific hooks you want to disable, or an array of modules for which you want to disable all hooks
  • This was a capability available for the Drupal 7 Migrate module, but hasn’t been available in the Migrate API in Drupal core since version 8, so this module can be invaluable if you’re working on a sizable migration
  • Hopefully there are a lot of folks working on migrations ahead of the January 5 EOL for Drupal 7, so I thought this module would be timely

Today we are talking about Workspaces, What They are, and How They Work with guest Scott Weston. We’ll also cover Workspaces Extra as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/475

• What are Workspaces in Drupal
• What's a common use cases for Workspaces
• Are Workspaces stable
• Do Workspaces help with content versioning
• What does the module ecosystem look like for Workspaces
• Inspiration
• Workspaces best practices
• Any interesting ways it is being used
• Is there a way to access workspace content in twig
• Navigation integration
• Workspaces and workflows
• What aspects of a Workspace are limited to live
• If someone wants to get involved or get started

• Drupal Workspaces
• Core issue: Media library form can only be submitted in the default workspace
• Integrate Navigation with Workspaces

Scott Weston - scott-weston

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Joshua "Josh" Mitchell - joshuami.com joshuami

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Do you want to extend the capabilities of the Workspaces system in Drupal core? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Workspaces Extra
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2021 by Andrei Mateescu (amateescu) of tag1, who has also contributed to Workspaces in core, among other many things
  • Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha3 which works with Drupal 10.3 or 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release is less than a week old
  • Security coverage: technically yes, but not really until it has a stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 20 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch, though one has already been fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 89 sites
• Module features and usage
  • One of the big features in Drupal 10.3 was that Workspaces is now officially stable. That said, not everything works the way some site builders will want it to. That’s where a contrib solution like Workspace Extra can help to fill in the gaps
  • It provides new options like letting you roll back changes from a published workspace, move content between workspaces, discard changes in a workspace, squashing content revisions when a workspace is published, and more
  • Workspaces Extra, or WSE also includes a number of submodules to add even more capabilities. For example, they can allow your workspace to stage an allowlist of configuration changes, deploy workspace content using an import/export system, stage menu changes, and more. For workflow, there’s an option to generate a shareable workspace preview link for external users, and a scheduler to publish your workspace at a specific day and time
  • I will add that the first time I played with workspaces I ran into an issue where I couldn’t create media entities within a workspace. I don’t know for sure that this hasn’t been fixed in core, but the core issue about it is still listed as “Needs work”. That said, the last comment on that issue (link in the show notes) lists WSE as something that helps, so if you encounter the same issue with Workspaces, WSE is worth a try

Today we are talking about CI for Drupal modules, How it helps us build Drupal, and the ongoing work and improvements being made with guest Fran Garcia-Linares. We’ll also cover Require on Publish as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/441

• What does CI mean
• How do Drupal modules use CI
• When we talk about Drupal CI are we talking about the website itself or the CI that supports contributors
• What tools does Drupal use for CI
• How do maintainers interact with CI
• What changes have happened in the last year
• Speed improvements
• Drupal CI vs Gitlab CI
• Process to convert
• When is Drupal CI being shut down
• What improvements are coming
• If someone has an issue where do they get help

• Gitlab templates module
• Gitlab CI Drupal
• Support ElasticSearch 8 [#3279558] | Drupal.org
• Slack channel for ci questions #gitlab
• DrupalCI and all patch testing will be turned off on July 1, 2024 | Drupal.org
• Testing a Drupal module | Basic module building tutorial: Lorem ipsum generator
• Gitlab CI getting started
  • GitLab CI | Using GitLab to Contribute to Drupal
  • WIP:
    • Create a space to document how to customize each of the GitLab CI jobs [#3423238] | Drupal.org will generate https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/gitlab_templates/
    • We are pushing for a basic version to be fully live this week
• [Meta] Switching to Gitlab CI [#3424725] | Drupal.org

Fran Garcia-Linares - fjgarlin

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have content fields that could be optional until a piece of content is published, or ready to be published? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Require on Publish
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2018 by Mike Priscella (mpriscella), though recent releases are by Mark Dorison (markdorison) of Chromatic
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release just over a month ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 18, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 3,001 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module enabled, form to configure fields for you content types will have a new checkbox labeled “Required on Publish”
  • Check this new box instead of the normal “Re...

Today we are talking about CKEditor 4 End of Life, Moving to CKEditor 5, and what you can expect from CKEditor 5 now and in the future with guest Wim Leers. We’ll also cover CKEditor 5 Premium Features as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/438

• CKEditor 4 end of life June 2023
• Issues people might see if they are still on CKE4
• Why a third party library and not roll our own
• Are there other alternatives
• Why did Drupal decide on CKEditor
• Drupal 10 moved to CKE5 How should people update
• Upgrade gotchas
• What's new in CKE5
• What is on the roadmap regarding Drupal and CKE5
• Is there going to be a CKE6
• Native Web Components
• Does CKE in core affect Gutenberg

• CKEditor 4 End Of Life
  • Contrib
  • Core, prioritized upstream blockers
  • Core, all issues blocked on upstream (currently 29), if we look just at bugs there's 17 (1 of which is critical, 6 major)
• Drastically improve the linking experience in CKEditor 5
• Drupal Image ability to opt in to SVG image uploads
• Native
  and
  UX
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3274635
• Extended html filter
• Views / ckeditor custom elements

Wim Leers - wimleers.com Wim Leers

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to offer your content creators advanced capabilities like real-time collaboration? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • CKEditor 5 Premium Features
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2022 by Wiktor Walc, although recent releases are by Wojciech (vOYchekh) Kukowski, both of CKSource, the company behind CKEditor (Wiktor was on episode 372 https://talkingdrupal.com/372)
  • Current version available: 1.2.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past month
  • User Guide available, link is in the README
  • Number of open issues: 16, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 159 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To me, the most compelling features enabled by this module are the ones that turn your Drupal WYSIWYG into a robust collaboration tool, similar to what users may be used to in tools like Google Docs or Office 365
  • Real-time inline comments and changes from multiple users
  • Track changes to suggest ways the content could be improved
  • A history of changes made in ...