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Update a project installed via composer_manager or drush to a CI based Composer template under Drupal VM
If you have to go for a Drupal core update from a previous install based on composer_manager or drush (both deprecated), consider installing something robust, Composer friendly, that excludes vendor and core for a lightweight repository and enables CI and automation tools like Phing, Behat, PHPUnit, CodeSniffer, ...
If you don't have Drupal VM installed, head to the documentation.
Development best practices learned from the Drupal Dev Days Seville 2017
Drupal 8 custom Google Maps and automatic geocoding with Composer, Drupal Console and Drush
Front and backend relations are getting better faster stronger and easier
Here are a plain list of modules that really gives site builders front and backend super powers and make these two categories of developers closer than ever.
Page Manager
It supports the creation of new pages, and allows placing blocks within that page.
Like Drupal 7's Page Manager, it provides a concept of "page variants", each with their own selection conditions.
Additionally, it can be used to take over an existing page, like overriding /node/%
to change what is displayed when viewing a node.
Drupal 8 JSON custom migration
Install Solr 6 for Drupal 8 on Ubuntu 16.04
Install and update Drupal 8 core and contrib modules with Composer
Alter Views sort by taxonomy weight
The use case is that we want to sort a list of users by job title, where job title is a term reference to a dedicated vocabulary.
The sort is done by the job title term weight (defined via the vocabulary list).
I choosed to apply a custom sort function on a view, instead of a custom dynamic / entity query for two reasons :