Issue 338 - May, 10th 2018
News
Drupal Association Blog: Investing in the Promote Drupal Fund
Drupal Core - Configuration Management 2.0 Initiative
"Drupal 8's built-in config system is a HUGE step forward. However, now that the community has a couple of years of building Drupal 8 sites behind them, various limitations have surfaced: various common workflows are not natively supported; core's config APIs have missing functionality. While many of these problems have contrib workarounds, often these solutions can conflict with one another, and there's no one set of best practices that works for all."
JS Testing Using Nightwatch
New Command Line Tool to Install & Run Drupal
A new built in one line command to spin up Drupal.
New Method to Invalidate Twig Templates
What’s New on Drupal.org? - April 2018
Workspaces Is a New Experimental Module (In Core)
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Articles
Drupal Sites Fall Victims to Cryptojacking Campaigns
Large Cryptojacking Campaign Targeting Vulnerable Drupal Websites
Drupal Core Workspace Module
Tim Millwood discusses the Workspace module recently added to core.
Eat This, It’s Safe: How to Manage Side Effects with Redux-Saga
"Functional programming is all the rage, and for good reason. By introducing type systems, immutable values, and enforcing purity in our functions, to name just a few advantages, we can reduce the complexity of our code while bolstering our confidence that it will run with minimal errors. It was only a matter of time before these concepts crept their way into the increasingly sophisticated front-end technologies that power the web."
JSON-RPC to Decouple Everything Else
Drupal 8 + CiviCRM Roundearth Lands in Calgary for CiviCamp
Quickstarting Drupal 8
A video summarizing the new quick-start Drupal feature.
Tutorials
Converting a Non-Composer Drupal Codebase to Use Composer
See How Continuous Delivery Makes Your Code Delivery Faster and Better
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Slack Integration as a Debugging Tool
Releases
file_entity 7.x-2.21
file_entity 7.x-3.0-Beta7
jsonapi_extras 8.x-2.1
Redirect 8.x-1.2
Relaxed 8.x-1.0-Beta9
simple_oauth 8.x-3.7
views_data_export 8.x-1.0-Beta1
Podcasts
Behind the Screens with Michael Miles
Dropcast: Episode 37 - and the Award Goes To...
Talking Drupal #169 - Solo and Lando
Talking Drupal #170 - Linux Desktop
Events
Design 4 Drupal, Boston - June 27 - 29
Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2018 - June 16th
Drupal Camp Scotland - May 19th
Drupalcamp Spain 2018 - May 26 - 27
Frontend United - May 31 - June 2
MiniCamp Online - Thursday, June 7, 2018
Texas Camp 2018 - May 31 - June 2
Twin Cities Drupal Camp June 7 - 10
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