Coding and Development

The Coding and Development track is focused on educating developers on the latest techniques and tools for increasing the quality and efficacy of their projects. Topics will include best practices for coding and debugging in Drupal 8, making decisions and plans for migrating sites from earlier versions of Drupal or other systems, upgrading contrib to Drupal 8, engagement with other frameworks and technologies, high performance and large scale development experiences, and exploring the advantages of participating in open-source culture. Come share the vast wealth of knowledge and lessons learned and collaborate with other engineers from around the world!

Smithsonian + Google - Open source web components for visualizing and interacting with 3D objects

rossiv
Conference Year
Co-Presenter(s)
Session Track
Coding and Development
Experience Level
Advanced
Session Description

This session will discuss two open source web components for visualizing and interacting with 3D objects, Google's <model-viewer> and the Smithsonian Institution's Voyager, and how the Smithsonian...

best of both worlds: improve your Decoupled Drupal with external personalization (in Firebase)

Jitesh Doshi
Conference Year
Session Track
Coding and Development
Experience Level
Beginner
Session Description

Now that the whole world has discovered decoupled CMS, the default and most common approach to Decoupled Drupal seems to be a completely independent static HTML+JS UI that uses Drupal only to get JSON...

Benefits and pitfalls of integrating Drupal into a decoupled, static site build process for VA.gov

ElijahLynn
Conference Year
Co-Presenter(s)
Session Track
Coding and Development
Experience Level
Intermediate
Session Description

In this session we will discuss a bit about why and how we implemented the VA.gov CMS (Drupal 8) as a backend Content API to feed a decoupled, Metalsmith static HTML build and deployment system for...