Issue 337 - May, 3rd 2018

News

Drupal Association Board Elections 2018

Promote Drupal - Starting with a Drupal.org Redesign

You may have noticed that the Drupal.org front page has a new look. It’s just the start of our Promote Drupal Initiative that focuses on getting new decision makers to fall in love with Drupal.

What's New on Drupal.org? - March 2018

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Promoting the Drupal Community from Within the Drupal Software

Should You Decouple?

"One of the major topics of discussion in the Drupal community has been decoupled (or headless) Drupal. Depending on who you ask, it’s either the best way to build break-through user experiences or nothing short of a pandemic. But what exactly is a decoupled architecture?"

8 Things to Know About React for Drupal Devs

An Introduction to Drupal for React Developers

Decoupling Drupal 8 Core: Retrieving and Manipulating Content with Core REST

Hackers Don't Give Site Owners Time to Patch, Start Exploiting New Drupal Flaw Within Hours

Improving Shopping Cart UX with Commerce Cart Flyout

Drupal 8 Lessons from the Field: Part 2 - the Drupal Frontend

In today’s fast paced world, the speed of digital experiences is important. Organizations with slow websites risk customer disloyalty, cart abandonment and bad SEO scores. You can insulate yourself from the risks of a slow site by optimizing your frontend. Watch Part 2 of our fast internet tech talk series to learn about best practices to optimize your Drupal frontend.

Mollom: The Story of My First SaaS Startup

Dries Buytaert shares the story of his anti-spam SaaS product.

Tutorials

Drupal 8 Cache API Examples Cheat Sheet

Drupal 8 Lessons from the Field: Part 3 - the Drupal Backend

As part of our discussion series on fast internet, we discussed how to optimize a developer’s journey and enhancing frontend website delivery. During Part 3 of this on-demand tech talk series we take a look into the very core part of the Drupal ecosystem - The Drupal backend. Watch it here.

Easily Link to Content Using Linkit in Drupal 8

Enabling RESTful Web Service Interfaces in Drupal 8

Seven Must-Do Checks to Ensure Your Drupal Site Is Ready for GDPR

Using Drupal Console to Manage Your RESTful Endpoints

Talks

API-First Initiative Update (DrupalCon Nashville)

Releases

decoupled_router 8.x-1.0-Rc1

Guardr 7.x-2.44

jsonapi_extras 8.x-2.0

Lightning 8.x-3.103

Media 7.x-1.7

media_entity_image 8.x-1.3

menu_block 8.x-1.5

Openpublic 7.x-1.19

Panopoly 7.x-1.53

Release 5.0.6 - Wodby/docker4drupal

single_datetime 8.x-1.6

Speedy 7.x-1.33

stage_file_proxy 7.x-1.8

views_bulk_operations 8.x-2.3

Webform 8.x-5.0-Rc12

Workflow 8.x-1.1

Video

Mediacurrent: Friday 5: 5 Questions About Integrating Drupal Data with Component Templates

Podcasts

Behind the Screens with Jeffrey McGuire

The Blue Drop Matrix - Hacking Culture