Local Development

Are you a chronic user of dpm() or print_r() to dump your variables to the screen? Come learn how to use an IDE and debugger to improve efficiency when inspecting variables. Using a debugger can also dramatically help inspect variables in places where printing variables to the screen is challenging, such as when writing automated tests or non-HTML pages like AJAX requests or file uploads.

How do people in the know develop under Windows? WSL? MAMP PRO? PhpStorm? Others?

How to deploy to Ubuntu?

In Part 1, we talked about using Backdrop CMS to run your entire business, from job tracking to stadium screens. Now, let’s get our hands dirty and talk infrastructure. If your business apps are critical, you need speed, reliability, and full control over your data.

We're trading expensive cloud bills and vendor lock-in for a lean, powerful, self-hosted infrastructure stack that keeps you in the driver's seat.

This is a deep dive into what DevOps need to develop, deploy, and automate your mission-critical Backdrop applications:

You already know Backdrop CMS builds great websites. But what if it could revolutionise your business processes, manage your clients, and even control the big-screen TV at sports stadiums?

For beginners and people of all levels who may be able to share their tips and suggest solutions on getting started working on core Pull Requests.  I am happy to be the facilitator and kick it off with some of my experiences getting started with core PR's and setting up a useful local environment.

I will try to port module https://www.drupal.org/project/openid_connect using combination of https://www.cursor.com/ and Backdrop code converter during this hour.

We will review how developers are using ddev and how to transition from other DevOps tools (such as Docksal) to DDEV.
Start here https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/quickstart/#backdrop 

Please continue discussion on Discord 

A demo of what's new in Bee and what might be on the horizon.

What would you like to know about Bee?

I'll be covering the basics of custom entity creation in 4 progressively complex examples. Examples are available here:

https://github.com/argiepiano/ed

Feel free to download and play around ahead of the presentation.

I've been switching my local development from Lando to DDev. I've created some custom commands to create a local snapshot of a my site and restore it as needed. 

I've also created a local bash script to spin up new local sites and incorporates DDev. 

I'm happy to share what I've learned and learn from what others are doing with DDev. 

I'd like to focus on DDev during this session, but there may be some talk about other local development tools as well.