Decoupled Drupal – What You Need to Consider

Managing Drupal sites with composer brings a number of benefits. However, when installing Drupal dependencies from source (an option offered by composer), you also lose the functionality provided by Drupal core’s “Available Updates” page. Thankfully Composer will allow you to keep tabs on the available updates for all of your project’s dependencies, including Drupal core/contrib.

Dad explains the concept of algorithms to his son's Grade One class, with the help of paper airplanes.

We asked each woman in the company, including myself, a handful of questions about searching for jobs: what made them pick Chromatic, what Chromatic does well, and where we could improve, along with some more general questions about our job-searching experiences.

“Decoupled Drupal” sounds cool and just about everyone else seems to be either doing it or talking about it, so it must be the best solution for you, right? Well, maybe. As with most things, the answer is more nuanced than one might think.

We’ll be attending and presenting at this year’s MidCamp in Chicago. If you’re also going to be in there, be sure to check out our sessions on Twig and application monitoring.

I read an article recently discussing scope creep. It starts by stating “Scope creep is awful.” Many of the points suggested are good and the recommendations valid, yet at some point I have to ask: Is scope creep really awful?

Most of you reading this know that Chromatic is a distributed team with no centralized offices. This means that we have team members living all around the globe, and that we travel a decent amount. The whole team enjoys great food.

It's important to keep databases (and other non-version-controlled content) regularly backed up to a remote location. By combining a little bash, Amazon's aws-cli library, and Jenkins (or cron!), we can set up fully automated daily database backups in only five lines of code!

Component-based design and development is here to stay and the most important tool to emerge from this paradigm is the component library. They provide many benefits, but they can also introduce friction. Fortunately, we can ease this friction with proper planning. Answering key questions before building a single component goes a long way towards ensuring the library's success.

symdeps is an npm utility that lets you define custom install paths for your JavaScript dependencies with just a bit of configuration in your project’s package.json. It supports both symbolic and hard links, can handle individual files or entire directories, and can be set up to run automatically.

Poor website architecture and performance planning has struck again, this time leaving 24,000 families in the state of Illinois disappointed and burdened by the crash of the Empower Illinois scholarship tax credit site.

Kim recounts a difficult situation that eventually led to finding a good fit with an amazing new team, and how becoming remote has changed things for the better.