Module 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:

Let's talk about all of the things AI and I have been working on.

OpenAI
Search API AI
OpenAI related content
OpenAI Content Lifecycle
OpenAI Metatag
OpenAI SEO Advisor

Saving the slot, more info coming soon. 

An example of how to use the HTMX library module

I'd like to discuss the possibility of improving the documentation for contrib projects.  Not every project will need this and for many the README is all that is needed, but some use the Wiki.  Wikis are alright but they are not searchable, either internally or from Google.

I've been experimenting with VitePress (used for Lando documentation) as a Github Action to publish into pages.  At present, GitHub Pages are disabled in backdrop-contrib but perhaps this could change?

Over the last year, we've done more than a handful of upgrades from Drupal 7 to Backdrop! We will be discussing the broad process and lessons learned, and answering questions related to:

• Estimating effort in broad strokes
• Some gotchas around module porting
• Rebuilding vs porting themes
• Tracking launch steps

Backdrop 1.27.0 released January 15, 2024, and included a new major version of the popular rich text editor CKEditor. The jump from CKEditor 4 to 5 is a big one, with an entirely new plugin architecture.

This session we'll be reviewing the upgrade process for sites using CKEditor 4, starting with sites that are simply upgrading to the latest version. Then we'll go over common issues and differences from CKEditor 4, such as loading CSS into the editor.

Finally, we'll take a look at upgrading modules and plugins to the new API.

More details will be added, but I'd like to talk about how we can optimise our contrib repos to help point to Backdrop from as many directions as possible.

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