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

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

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

Stupid Simple: Creating Simple, Reusable, Accessible Javascript Interactivity in Drupal (or wherever)

ctorgalson — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 15:05:53 +0000

Stupid Simple: Creating Simple, Reusable, Accessible Javascript Interactivity in Drupal (or wherever)

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

ctorgalson Sun, 04/23/2023 - 17:05

Time Slot

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

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Decoupled & Frontend Development

There are a few kinds of javascript-based interactive components that experienced front-end developers have typically built many times. We usually do this because we think the implementation needs to be specific to a given project even though we routinely re-use other code (like contrib modules and base themes) on every project.

If we could avoid this, we'd benefit by reducing time spent re-inventing the wheel, and by making it possible to back-port bugfixes and new features to existing projects.

Well, we can avoid it. Reusable, extensible, customisable implementations of these small interactive components is surprisingly simple--and fast.

In this session, I will:

outline a flexible way to design and plan simple interactive javascript components for web projects with or without Drupal,
step through the implementation of a flexible, customisable, and accessible version of the Web Accessibility Initiative's "disclosure" (or show/hide) pattern,
(time permitting) step through extending the disclosure to create another common type of interactive component.

Attendees to the session will learn:

a way to decide the appropriate roles of html, javascript, and css when building interactive tools,
a way to design javascript for progressive enhancement,
a way to design javascript for reusability & extensibility,
a way to design javascript for customisibility,
a way to design javascript for responsivity,
a way to design your javascript for accessibility,
a way to make javascript responsive.

Speaker(s)

Christopher Torgalson

Front End Developer at Annertech

Speaker biography

Christopher Torgalson has been building stuff on and for the web ever since failing to make a go of a career doing philosophy. His core competencies are the front-end, specifically in Drupal, but he also has experience in the back-end and in devops.

He currently works with Annertech where he does front-end, back-end, and devops work.

Session Keywords

Javascript

CSS

Frontend Performance