Issue 245 - June, 23rd 2016
News
Drupal 8.1.3 and 7.44 Released
Drupal 8.1.3 and 7.44, maintenance releases which contain fixes for security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.
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Articles
Dries Buytaert: The Long Path to Being Understood
Ensuring Drupal 8 Block Cache Tags Bubble Up to the Page
Evaluating the Security of Drupal Contrib Modules
Introduction to GraphQL for Drupal Developers
The Risks and Rewards of Fully Decoupling Drupal
Lightning Distro for Drupal: Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Drupal 8
Developers gain a massive head-start when building great authoring experiences with Lightning, but it has not been a simple development roadmap. In this webinar, learn about some of the decisions we had to tackle, the roadmap for Lightning including the Workplace Preview System and Decoupled Blocks integration, and a demo of all 18 user stories so you understand the intent and operation of the features we have implemented.
Tutorials
5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Drupal Website - Number 2: Security
Creating Content Builder Using Paragraphs
Debug Site Performance Using Web Profiler in Drupal 8
Github's New Unlimited Private Repositories + Automated Deployments!
Now that Github is offering unlimited private repositories for only $7, it couldn't be more affordable to start leveraging deployment automation. Stop deploying manually and instead focus more on innovating!
How to Fix a Testbot Bug When Adding New Tests
Learn Views in Drupal 8
Let’s Debug in Drupal 8!
Nice overview of Drupal specific tools and methods for debugging in Drupal 8 from Karine Chor.