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Drupal 8 Javascript tests with Nightwatch.js and Docker
JavaScript Browser testing with Drupal 8
Drupal 8.6 introduced the Nightwatch.js browser automation tool to perform browser and JavaScript testing. That's a good news because current PHPUnit based javascript tests are prone to failure on ci and writing JavaScript tests in PHP is a bit... confusing.
- by Jean |
- 09 Feb 2019 |
Dependency injection when extending a class that implements ControllerBase
Here is an almost typical use case when developing custom code for Drupal 8.
A third party module declare a controller with a method that you want to override because you need to change the logic and there is no practical way to do it in the module (could be a hook).
- by Jean |
- 22 Jan 2019 |
Theme preprocess and suggestions for Drupal 8 Bootstrap sub theme
Building enough Drupal 8 websites I ended up applying always the same basic set of code in my Bootstrap sub theme.
- by Jean |
- 22 Oct 2018 |
My Drupal 8 modules, Bootstrap image formater
Working on the update of my website in Drupal 8, I developed two modules with image formater to display a carousel and a gallery using Bootstrap with Drupal 8.
- by Jean |
- 04 Jan 2016 |
Theming and templating with Drupal 7
Drupal 7 uses PhpTemplate as theme engine. The system is simple, each module implements its theme functions (HOOK_theme) to generate a markup, in most cases HTML, in a direct way or using a template file (XXXXX.tpl.php). The function of the theme also permits to the module to set variables which, after processing will be used in HTML display.
- by Jean |
- 11 Aug 2015 |
Drush advanced, setup with composer, aliases and autocomplete
In a previous article I wrote a small review of Drush and useful commands, this article is going a little farther configuring Drush on your *nix system.
- by Jean |
- 14 Aug 2014 |
Drush, the command line for Drupal
Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. This tool will help you quite a lot when building a Drupal website, saving a lot of time with repetitives or time consuming tasks. If you don't like command line, you can forget Drush...
- by Jean |
- 19 Feb 2014 |
