Issue 264 - November, 3rd 2016

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Articles

Evaluating the Chinese Developer Community

An interesting post from the Acquia Developer Center Blog.

Let’s Talk About Decoupled Authentication

Gizra's Roy Segall shares how to handle auth in a decoupled Drupal site using the RESTful module.

Sprint Mentoring

Daniel Lemon shares the experience of mentoring at sprints.

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What to Look for in a Code Review

Tutorials

Drupal 8 CI/CD with Docker via Jenkins. Part 1: Integration

In this post Chingis Sandanov demonstrate how to create a CI workflow for your Drupal 8 website with Docker using Jenkins as the CI/CD tool.

How to "integrate" Material Design with Drupal

"Material Design is a popular "design language" developed by Google that came out in June 2014. Since then, it has kind of become the visual identity of most of Google's mobile applications for Android."

Reusable Images and Files with Media Bundles in Drupal

OSTraining's Daniel Pickering shows how to provide a common feature in Drupal 7 in Drupal 8.

Use Gulp for Drupal 8 with Teams, Part 1: Gulp Setup

Using Display Suite in Drupal 8: How to Customize Content Pages

WebWash's Ivan Zugec shows us how to use Display Suite to layout your content types in Drupal 8.

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Projects

JSON API Module: Alpha Release Announcement

Top Drupal 8 Modules

Mediacurrent's Jay Callicott shares his list of top Drupal 8 modules.

Releases

classy_paragraphs 8.x-1.0-Beta1

Commerce 8.x-2.0-Beta3

doctrine_cache 8.x-1.0

file_entity 8.x-2.0-Beta3

Footnotes 8.x-2.0

guzzle_cache 8.x-1.0

Media 7.x-2.0-Beta5

Metatag 8.x-1.0-Beta11

state_machine 8.x-1.0-Beta3

Podcasts

DrupalEasy Podcast 188 - Pants and Pokemon (Matt Glaman - Drupal 8 Development Cookbook)

Lullabot Podcast: Improving Drupal 8's User Experience

Talking Drupal #131 - Third Party APIs