Perspectives from the experts at Chromatic
It is now dead simple to add Tugboat to Drupal contributed modules.
As we wrap up the fourth quarter of 2022 and hurtle headlong into 2023, we have compiled a round-up of our team’s open-source efforts in Q4 2022. Happy New Year!
Running build commands in parallel with Robo is a great way to reduce build times.
Struggling to keep your project’s environments using the same version of Node.js? Learn how to declare your Node.js version in a single file and reference it everywhere.
We have been using Robo as our task runner of choice on PHP projects for some time now. Over time our set of Robo commands has grown, and often they are quite similar across different projects causing us to duplicate code and then keep them in sync when changes are made to our commands.
Today we are releasing version 1.0 of our Platform.sh Database Backup and S3 Sync GitHub Action that will allow you to take a database dump from a site hosted on platform.sh and sync that database dump to an AWS S3 bucket that you specify. We are utilizing this action with a scheduled workflow on a number of sites to automate database backups without running on any of our own infrastructure. We hope you find this tool useful, and let us know if you encounter any issues!
Managing Drupal configuration and keeping it in sync requires attention to detail and process. Automation can add to the problem, but also solve it.
Learn how Ansible can be used to standardize and automated Drupal deployments.
Composer 2 RC2 is now in the wild and the official release of 2.0 is quickly approaching. This is exciting for anyone who has complained about Composer’s performance in the past as Composer 2 brings significant performance improvements.
Web security depends on following boring ole’ best practices, like keeping your software up-to-date. This makes it fairly dull, unlike Hollywood portrayals of IT security. However, if disaster strikes, you need a plan in place to fix things, fast.
One of Tugboat’s most compelling features is that it is fast, but that hasn’t stopped us from pursuing making it even faster. We wanted to turn our tugboat into a speedboat.
A detailed rundown of our development, review, and QA processes.
Understanding Composer's preferred install settings can be essential when applying module info file patches.
Composer already manages our PHP dependencies, so why not let it manage our utility scripts too?
At the time of Yarn’s debut, it brought big advancements to npm’s performance and workflow along with the introduction of lock files. A lot of time has passed since then and with the arrival of a native npm lock file, I was under the impression that more recent npm development had rendered the benefits of Yarn obsolete.
Deploying the latest changes to your site can take many forms. Understanding the steps involved and why each one matters will help prevent deployment surprises.
Chromatic has used Travis CI for nearly five years for our continuous integration needs; building every pull request, checking our changes against code standards, running automated tests, etc. On March 12, 2019, we canceled our Travis subscription and began running our builds elsewhere. Why make a change now? It’s simple, really.
How to use your production deployment automation strategies to build local development infrastructure.
Making the review and approval process fast and efficient is key to successful agile projects. Tugboat helps this tremendously.
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.
The story of how we recovered from a mysterious performance meltdown related to file organization.
dnscontrol is an open-source tool written in Go by the fine folks at Stack Exchange that allows us to configure our DNS records in a JS file that can be committed to version control and published on demand. With this configuration in git, we can now easily review changes through our normal pull request workflow, as well as getting a full log of any changes made over time.
How to reference a forked/patched npm package.
fastly-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) for the Fastly CDN written in node.js.
How to understand and use some of Ansible's strange looping techniques.
Using Drush to sync databses (drush sql-sync) is a valuable tool, but it is not always an efficient choice when dealing with large databases (think over 1GB).
At Chromatic, we wanted to produce a repeatable site launch process that we could share not only amongst ourselves, but also with the community.
As developers, oftentimes we want or need our working environment to be an exact match of the production environment. This is especially true when your project is running a complex or specific infrastructure. Lucky for us, there’s Vagrant!
I remember when I viewed the command line as some esoteric art only used by the Wizards of the Back-End. Now, I can’t get enough of it.
In a previous post, Dave talked about marginal gains and how, in aggregate, they can really add up. We recently made some infrastructure improvements that I first thought would be marginal, but quickly proved to be rather significant.
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