Drupal 8

Git hooks facilitates some scripts or commands that you can run before or after any git commands. For example, you can set to lint, validate your code using phpcs before every commit or push.

Drush is a CLI tool that makes managing a Drupal site a very easy task. Here are some essential Drush commands that will help you while developing or debugging.

Drush is the CLI tool for managing Drupal projects. Drush alias works by using this username and domain/ip address combination to login to the server and execute the command and then return back to your command line.

All you have to do is intercept every request, check if it is authenticated user and if not redirect to login page. There is an Event that is fired on every request, we need to subscribe to that event.

This module provides simple popup block like that of sumo.me. Sometimes we need to display popup blocks which interacts with the user. Example, Get a Quote, Newsletter subscription forms. Using this module, the user can and their webforms to a block which is a popup and style it as well. After this, the user can specify when to display the popup to the user. Example, 5 seconds after the user is on the page, when the user scrolls to 50% of page and so on. The user can also add custom styles to the block.

An API first distribution and a responsive Angular Single Page App using Angular material. Acephalous provides an Angular front-end and an API first Drupal back-end. Routing has been made simpler here by using the same routes from Drupal rather than re-inventing the wheel. Routing takes place in the Routing component in the Angular Single Page App. The purpose of this distribution is to create a fast, secure and small front end application while keeping all the Drupal 8 goodness like SEO, responsive images, routing, multilingual, easy content authoring, views. Basically Drupal acts like an smart content source and a JavaScript framework renders it.

Upgrading a Drupal 8 site to Drupal 9. Follow the blog written by Dries on Drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/docs/upgrading-drupal/upgrading-from-drupal-8-to-drupal-9-or-higher to easily upgrade.

A step by step guide on how to set-up and run Behat test cases on local using Lando and Acquia BLT.

For hosting Drupal applications, it is better to go with a hosting platform that promises support specifically for Drupal. There are many such platforms, Platform.sh, Acquia, Pantheon. Let's compare the two leading one's from a slightly different user perspective.