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We talk with Andy Blum about the Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension brings some really useful Drupal-y features to Visual Studio Code including hook completion, form and render array element completion, and service and service method autocomplete.URLs mentionedDrupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code (Github)vscodiumConfiguring Visual Studio Code doc page on Drupal.org Auto Close Tag extensionAuto Rename Tag extensionGit Graph extensionPHP

I've been a big fan of the Termcase module for a long time - it is my go-to module for sites that employ free-tagging taxonomies. Termcase allows site-builders to force consistency on tag names (all lowercase, all uppercase, first-letter uppercase, etc…) It's one of those modules that I was surprised that not everyone used (or had even heard of.) While working to update a Drupal 9 site that uses Termcase to Drupal 10, I became curious if free-tagging was still a commonly-used technique on modern

We talk with Jordan Powell about Cypress, an open-source, javascript-based testing framework.URLs mentionedCypress (open-source project) homeCypress.io (company) homeCypress CloudLearn.cypress.io and getting started videoJordan Powell (LinkedIn)Test Your Drupal Site The Easy Way: Use Cypress (Drupal session video)Test-driven development with Drupal & Cypress.io (Drupal session video)Why Cypress Is the Core of Our Speech: Mark Shropshire | FLDC (blog post)DrupalEasy NewsProfessional

It’s been an interesting path to finding professional and personal fulfillment for the decidedly bold and curious Cindy Garcia. She graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering from Florida International University in 2012, landed a job as a Quality Assurance Engineer in the medical device industry shortly thereafter, and then realized she was more interested in, and really well suited for IT; specifically web development.This time of transition was not just one of wrestling with her

The Drupal Smart Trim module is used by more than 65,000 sites, including over ⅔ on modern Drupal (8+) sites. It has proven to be a valuable tool to improve Drupal's core functionality to trim long text fields in an intelligent manner.Late in 2022, we released a major update (2.0.0) to the module. Among other improvements, we delivered Drupal 10 compatibility and much improved automated tests. Since then, a 2.1.0 release (completed during the DrupalCon Pittsburgh community contribution day) has

I learned a valuable lesson last week.First, some context. One of DrupalEasy's clients is a large international industry association that is currently running a large Drupal 9 site with about a dozen custom modules and well over 150 contributed modules. We were brought onto the project a couple of years ago to do some custom module development, but until recently weren't all that involved in the overall site maintenance and development.As part of a recent task we've been working on, I stumbled on

Site spam is a thing that most Drupal developers have to deal with. Even if the site(s) you manage don't allow for non-admin authenticated users, we're willing to bet there are still some anonymous-facing forms, including the main site Contact form and probably a Webform or two.We've built and maintained a large number of Drupal sites over the past decade+ and for the past few years, we've settled on the combination of Antibot and Honeypot for most sites. Both modules are well-maintained, have

We talk with Matt Glaman about PhpStan and they whys and hows of using it in your day-to-day Drupal development. We also touch on his Drupal 7 compatibility layer experiment and his current writing project(s).URLs mentionedDrupal 7 compatibility layer for Drupal 10 🤯Matt's blogPhpStanPhpStan Drupal extensiondrupal/core-devPhpStan origin storyUsage on Drupal.org for Drupal core (and contributed modules)PhpStan baseline functionalityPhpStan strict rulesPhpStan deprecation rulesGet started