Issue 322 - January, 18th 2018

News

Drupal 8.5.0 Will Be Released March 7

The alpha begins on the week of January 17.

Introduce Per-Bundle Permissions for Media Types in Preparation to Deprecate Existing Ones

Nominations Are Now Open for the 2018 Aaron Winborn Award

REST Resources Now Have a Single "GET" Route for All Supported Formats

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Don’t Push It: Using GraphQL in Twig

"Using GraphQL in Drupal with Twig instead of React, Vue or the next month's javascript framework might sound like a crazy idea, but I assure you it’s worth thinking about."

Drupal 8 Modules We ♥ for 2018

Front End Journey Into Drupal + Pattern Lab

Guidelines for Writing Proper Tickets and Commits

Happy Seventeenth Birthday Drupal

Dries Buytaert talks about Drupal after seventeen years.

CiviCRM Secrets for Drupalers: Screencast of Drupal 8 + CiviCRM Installation

Follow our step-by-step screencast showing how to install CiviCRM on Drupal 8 yourself!

How to Decouple Drupal in 2018?

Dries Buytaert shares his thoughts on how to decouple Drupal.

Never "Just" a Patch

A good look at the value of contribution and how to get started.

Switching from Vagrant to Docker

Nice guide if you are looking to switch to Docker from your local Drupal environments.

Why We Abandoned SASS in Our Drupal Theme

A look at Zivtech switched To PostCSS in their Drupal themes.

Working with BLT: An Automation Layer for Testing, Building, and Launching Drupal 8 Applications

Tutorials

A Beginners Guide to Caching in Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Custom Site Search with Search API

Extending GraphQL: Part 3 - Mutations

How to Create Charts in Drupal 8 with Views

This Is Not Going to Go the Way You Think!

Mike Anello explains how Yoda’s thoughts on failure in “The Last Jedi” are applicable to learning, teaching, and becoming a Drupal Master.

Importing an Atom Feed with the Drupal 8 Migrate API and Paragraphs (Part 2)

Must Have Custom Drush Commands in Every Drupal Project

"This post explains how to create custom drush commands which are in must have list for every Drupal project."

React and Drupal 8 with JSON API 3/3

Projects

Drupal Commerce 2.x: 2017 in Review

Drupal Commerce is alive and well in 2018 and this post summarizes the accomplishments from 2017.

The Webform Module Now Depends on the Contribute Module

The latest changes to the Webform module to encourage donating to the Drupal Association.

Releases

Commerce 8.x-2.3

Honeypot 7.x-1.23

modules_weight 8.x-1.6

react_admin 8.x-1.0-Alpha4

Viewsreference 8.x-1.2

Podcasts

Behind the Screens with Derek "Hawkeye" DeRaps

Lullabot Podcast - the Out of the Box Initiative

Talking Drupal #157 Welcome 2018