Backend Development

Build Feature-Rich Apps with a Robust Backend Solution using Drupal

omarlopesino — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:13:44 +0000

Build Feature-Rich Apps with a Robust Backend Solution using Drupal

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

omarlopesino Mon, 05/22/2023 - 22:13

Time Slot

Sat 11:00am to 11:45am (7/22/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

In this session we will see:

I. Introduction

- Brief overview of Drupal as a CMS and its potential as an iOS app backend

- Presentation outline and objectives

II. In-App Purchases: Apple Store Server Notifications

- Understanding in-app purchases: one-off and recurrent

- Introduction to the Apple Store Server Notifications (ASSN) contrib module

- Steps to set up ASSN and handle notifications

III. Apple Receipt Validation

- Importance of validating in-app purchase receipts

- Process and steps of receipt validation using Drupal

- Common challenges and best practices for receipt validation integration

IV. REST API Integration: Drupal and iOS

- Basics of REST and JSON API modules in Drupal

- Building a custom REST API with Drupal's REST module

- Adapting JSON API for iOS app requirements

- Security, data privacy, and handling complex data structures

V. Best Practices for Developing iOS Apps with Drupal Backend

- Implementing decoupled or headless architecture

- Ensuring scalability and performance of the Drupal backend

- Keeping Drupal and contributed modules updated

VI Conclusion

- Recap of key insights and takeaways

- Encouragement to explore Drupal in iOS app development

- Open floor for questions and discussion on specific implementation challenges

Speaker(s)

Omar Lopesino

Senior Backend Developer at Metadrop

Speaker biography

Omar Lopesino

Senior backend developer

Session Keywords

App-Development

Back End Development

Why Module Builder should be in your developer toolkit

joachim — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:03:18 +0000

Why Module Builder should be in your developer toolkit

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

joachim Wed, 05/17/2023 - 17:03

Time Slot

Thu 11:45am to 12:15pm (7/20/23)

Session length

Short session - 25min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Your next custom module won't be written by AI, at least not for a while yet. But most of it could be written by Module Builder.

This session will explain why Module Builder deserves to be among the essential tools you add to any project to speed up and smooth over your development tasks.

Module Builder simplifies your work when writing custom code. Need a route and controller? A form? A config entity type with an admin UI? A kernel test? From a few options, Module Builder creates the boilerplate for all the common Drupal coding patterns.

Because Module Builder analyses your codebase, it can generate all hooks, plugins of all types, inject any service - even those you've only just written yourself!

Speaker(s)

Alvaro Hurtado

backed people lead at factorial.io

Speaker biography

I have lived all my life in Cáceres, a small town in western Spain. I've been dedicated to web development for more than 20 years and the last 13 years doing exclusively Drupal. I've always been linked to the open source world, but it's in Drupal where I've been more involved. I've been since 2017 in the board of the Spanish Drupal Association, collaborating with the organization of drupalcamps and contributing to the code and translations into Spanish whenever I have time.

Session Keywords

Back End Development

Leveraging the Drupal Core Entity API for your custom entity types

hchonov — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:56:38 +0000

Leveraging the Drupal Core Entity API for your custom entity types

Room

HS4 (Ground level)

hchonov Mon, 05/15/2023 - 23:56

Time Slot

Fri 10:45am to 11:30am (7/21/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Beginner

Session Category

Backend Development

This session is a walk-through defining a custom entity type. Some of the major topics will be about

- Bundles
- Revision and translation support
- Configuring the form display of the entity type
- Configuring the view display of the entity type
- Constraints and validation
- Access control
- Entity queries
- Configuration vs content entity types

Speaker(s)

Hristo Chonov

Lead Software Engineer at 1xINTERNET GmbH

Speaker biography

Speaker1

Drupal Core Entity API Maintainer
Main Developer and Maintainer of Autosave and Conflict
Lead Software Engineer
Have spoken at various camps and Drupal Cons

Session Keywords

Back End Development

Managing Translations in Drupal 10 in combination with the Layout Builder

Jeremy Chinquist — Mon, 15 May 2023 19:21:17 +0000

Managing Translations in Drupal 10 in combination with the Layout Builder

Room

HS4 (Ground level)

Jeremy Chinquist Mon, 05/15/2023 - 21:21

Time Slot

Wed 10:45am to 11:30am (7/19/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

We have all heard this from a client: “I have a small marketing website and I want it in English too.” It sounds simple, and it can be, but do not make the error to think “it is just a copy of each page, add the language switcher and voila, we’re done!”

In this talk we will dive into the technology decisions we have made, and committed to the Drupal community, in order to answer the question "How can translations of our content for our (Drupal 10-based) website relaunch, also using the layout builder, be managed?"

In this case study we used our company's website. We had to take our Drupal stack into consideration. It is based upon Lupus Decoupled, a fully integrated solution for a headless Drupal which builds upon Custom Elements and Lupus Custom Elements Renderer. On top of that we also use a custom solution that turns our backend into a contentpool that delivers content to multiple frontends. That was our starting point on top of which we added a multilingual functionality layer.

Drupal Core gives us many tools to start with, but to make it manageable, we had to make some decisions. When an entity exists in one language and then it is translated, all the layout builder blocks are cloned and attached to the new translation. How should the system manage an added block of text? The language switcher must also be designed. There are accessibility guidelines and decisions to make about how the language switcher works when a translation is not available. The list goes on.

We will highlight the overall strategy that we have developed, as well as go into some of the finer points of the code.

Speaker(s)

Liopold Doron Novelli

Developer at drunomics

Jeremy Chinquist

Project Manager | Kassier Drupal-Austria Verein at drunomics GmbH | Drupal-Austria Verein

Speaker biography

Speaker1

Liopold Novelli, from Slovenia, is a Free Software enthusiast and Drupal developer. Beside web and other IT technologies, he is also interested in journalism. He hosts his own radio show, centered on Open Source technologies.

Speaker2

Jeremy Chinquist, originally from Minnesota, USA, graduated from the Technical University of Vienna in 2013 with a Masters in Information Management. Currently working as Project Manager at drunomics in Vienna, he also serves as the Cashier of the Drupal-Austria Verein and volunteers at both DrupalCon Europe and at other Drupal community events.

Session Keywords

Content Management

Content Strategy

New module: Search API decoupled

breidert — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:59:20 +0000

New module: Search API decoupled

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

breidert Mon, 05/15/2023 - 16:59

Time Slot

Thu 10:45am to 11:30am (7/20/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Search API is a powerful module family. Especially, if you work with different search backends such as Solr, Elastic, OpenSearch, etc. and you want to create unified solutions for all of them.

However, it is not easy to build decoupled searches using Search API.

Therefore we have created a new module called search_api_decoupled, that exposes all necessary configurations to initialise a decoupled search application (layout, facets, search result rendering, autocomplete, etc.) and an API endpoint to query the search index.

The module exposes an UI to control the display of the search block or search page, including placement of elements like search input, pagination, various facets and search summary. For placement the layout module from core is used. Facets are created by the existing facets module. For autocomplete search_api_autocomplete is used.

The search endpoint was designed similar to existing search solutions, foremost Elasticsearch helper, and is very easy to consume.

Architecturally, the search relies only on data from the search index, and does not load nor render entities in Drupal. This makes searching lightning fast and overcomes caching challenges that might occur with existing display solutions for Search API.

For showcasing we have created a search app. However, this search app is not part of the new module, because it is highly opinionated and coupled to our frontend stack (React, Webcomponents, Tailwind). However, we would like to add a demo app or starter kit in a sub-module, that others can use to build their own search apps.

Speaker(s)

Artem Dmitriiev

Backend developer at 1xINTERNET

Christoph Breidert

1xINTERNET

Speaker biography

Artem Dmitriiev, Senior Lead Developer 1xINTERNET

Professional:

Senior Lead Developer 1xINTERNET
20+ years experience in software industry

Drupal:

Contributor
Frequent speaker at conferences

Education:

Master degree in Mathematics

Dr. Christoph Breidert, Co-Founder / MD 1xINTERNET

Professional:

Co-Founder / MD 1xINTERNET
20+ years experience in software industry

Drupal:

Contributor
Frequent speaker at conferences

Education:

Master degree in Engineering
PhD in Computer Science

Session Keywords

Back End Development

App-Development

Automatic Updates!

nidashah — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:33:55 +0000

Automatic Updates!

Room

HS1 (Ground level)

nidashah Mon, 05/15/2023 - 16:33

Time Slot

Wed 10:45am to 11:30am (7/19/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

In this session we will discuss the much awaited feature automatic updates. We ll also discuss how you can set up automatic updates for your site to make maintenance for drupal sites easy.

Attendees will be able to take away the following from this session:

Setting up Automatic updates for your local site and on the server.
How we can ensure our site is ready for automatic updates.
Customizing the update process.
Caveats and limitations of automatic updates.

Speaker(s)

Nida Shah

Solutions Architect at Netnode AG

Speaker biography

Nida Shah is a developer from Kashmir, currently working as a Solutions Architect at Netnode.

Session Keywords

Drupal future

Comment Analyzer

MethodJules — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:05:56 +0000

Comment Analyzer

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

MethodJules Mon, 05/15/2023 - 15:05

Time Slot

Thu 2:00pm to 2:45pm (7/20/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

Drupal as a Content Management Framework supports commenting content out of the box. In the free and hanseatic city of hamburg we have a Drupal based system for collecting informal civil contributions. To collect the data we have a Drupal Backend and a custom decoupled frontend implemented with Vue.js.

The content created by the citizens of the city can range from a hundred entries or more. Each of these contents as well as the comments are analyzed manually by one or more clerks. To simplify the process of comment analysis we have developed a Drupal module: comment-analyzer.

This module shows the administrator important information that helps him to analyze the comments correctly.

The presentation will show how we proceeded to develop our analysis model, which Drupal features like the Batch API we used, how the integration with different open source frameworks worked and an brief introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how NLP can be used to analyze comments on a Drupal site. We will discuss the different techniques that can be used, such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and text classification. We will also showcase the benefits of using NLP especially to make the free and hanseatic city smarter.

In conclusion, this presentation will be a great opportunity for Drupal developers and business owners to learn about the benefits of using NLP to analyze user comments. Attendees will leave the conference with a better understanding of how NLP can be used for e. g. to improve user engagement, detect spam comments, and understand user sentiment.

Speaker(s)

Julien Hofer

Data Scientist at Department Geoinformation and Surveying

Speaker biography

Julien Hofer

Is a highly skilled data scientist and web developer who has been making a name for himsel in the world of data-driven innovation. With a passion for both data analysis and web development, Julien Hofer has developed a unique set of skills that allow her to collect data and build innovative tools using Drupal as a CMS. He works for the Free City of Hamburg and was speaker on different Drupal Events.

Session Keywords

Drupal Site-Building

Content Management

Architecting Multimarket & Multilingual Drupal Sites: A Deep Dive into the Backend

jlbellido — Mon, 15 May 2023 09:03:29 +0000

Architecting Multimarket & Multilingual Drupal Sites: A Deep Dive into the Backend

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

jlbellido Mon, 05/15/2023 - 11:03

Time Slot

Fri 3:00pm to 3:45pm (7/21/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Drupal is increasingly being used for large projects that need to provide solutions for different markets with different languages. This context presents several challenges for the whole team at different levels. At DrupalCon Prague 2022, we presented a case study on our successful project with Nestle Professional. In this session, we will dive deeper into the technical aspects of building multi-market/multi-language Drupal sites, given that it is a very common scenario, as we have seen from audience feedback.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the technical considerations involved in architecting multi-market/multi-language Drupal sites.
Gain knowledge of which modules and configurations will help you build solutions for these scenarios.
Provide a deep technical view of how to solve these challenges based on our experience.

Topics Covered:

When and why to use a multi-market/multi-language approach for a project.
Common scenarios and how to address them:
- What is a market? How Domain and its module ecosystem can help.
- Language and market detection.
- How to define an editorial process that is easy to follow in a multi-market scenario, including defining content restrictions based on domain capabilities.
- Defining dedicated configurations for specific markets only.
- Restricting languages per market and their implications.
- SEO considerations to keep in mind and how to address them.

Target Audience: This session is intended for a technical audience familiar with Drupal who want to dive deeper into the technical considerations for building multi-market/multi-language sites. Attendees should have experience with Drupal development and a basic understanding of Drupal.

Speaker(s)

Jose Luis Bellido

Developer at Cocomore AG

Speaker biography

I'm a backend developer highly focused on Drupal development since 2012. Since then I've been involved on several projects most of them based on Drupal 7/8/9. The past 2 years I've been working on projects meant to provide solutions on a Multimarket/Multilanguage context.
I'm activly involved on the community since long time ago being part of the organization of the DrupalDevDays Seville 2017, and the Drupal local groups on the cities where I've lived (Sevilla & Málaga).

Entities explained

Berdir — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:22:37 +0000

Entities explained

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

Berdir Mon, 05/15/2023 - 08:22

Time Slot

Wed 5:10pm to 5:40pm (7/19/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Covering most important aspects of working with entities. From basic CRUD, working with entity fields, revisions, translations, entity templates in PHP and twig as well as some deep dives into inner workings of Content Entities. And finally, room for the questions you always wanted to ask an entity system maintainer.

The session will focus on content entities and working with existing entity types, defining a new entity type from scratch will not be covered.

Topics (Non-final):

What is an entity
Basic concepts: entity types, config vs content entities, bundles, fields, ...
Create/Read/Update/Delete
Fields: Field types, formatters, widgets, Typed data
Rendering entities: View displays, entity render arrays and templates
Revisions, Content moderation
Translations
Storage
Bundle classes

Level of expertise: The goal is that everyone will have a better understanding than before and learn some new bits, if you're new to Drupal you might not immediately follow everything but the presentation will also work as a reference to come back to later.

I've given the same presentation before at Drupal MountainCamp 2022: https://drupalmountaincamp.ch/sessions/entities-explained.

Speaker(s)

Sascha Grossenbacher

MD Systems

Speaker biography

Sascha Grossenbacher

Entity system maintainer, 15 years of Drupal contribution experience.

Session Keywords

Back End Development

PHP

Drupal & Performance

Alias — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:50:30 +0000

Drupal & Performance

Room

HS1 (Ground level)

Alias Sun, 05/14/2023 - 16:50

Time Slot

Wed 3:00pm to 3:45pm (7/19/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

In this session, we will discuss performance optimization within the Drupal platform. We will survey a wide spectrum of performance-related issues that various stakeholders involved in a Drupal website might confront - from end-users to the marketing team, coders, etc... In addition, we'll overview a variety of solutions aimed at addressing these challenges.

In the subsequent section, we'll highlight several tools designed for code and project benchmarking, and illustrate their application to benchmark Drupal core. This exploration will catalyze a conversation about how to interpret your results and identify strategic leverage points for your project.

In the concluding phase, we'll bring code examples of out-of-the-box thinking solutions, and deliberate on the common trade-of balancing performance over maintainability and configurability: a dilemma you may frequently encounter.

Speaker(s)

Dominique CLAUSE

Speaker biography

Dominique CLAUSE

Software engineer by trade, I have also been a Drupalist for 13 years now and fulltime freelance for the last 8 years, working with various techs. I have multiple hobbies, from robotics to 3D printing and dozens of ongoing side-projects. I also contribute to multiple open-source projects.

Session Keywords

Performance