January 15, 2024
Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Masterclass book, How it’s different from other Drupal books, and why you need it on your bookshelf with author Adam Bergstein. We’ll also cover Dashboards as our module of the week.
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Topics:
- What is Drupal 10 Masterclass about
- Who is this book for
- Why did you write the book
- Can you explain the subtitle a bit
- How does this differ from other recent Drupal books
- Can you tell us about the authoring experience
- What can our listeners do to make this book a success
- Do you think you’ll write another book
- Simplytest.me update
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Module of the Week:
Dashboards with Layout Builder
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to add a dashboard to your Drupal site, to provide at-a-glance information to editors? There’s a module for that.
- Brief history
- How old: created in Nov 2019 by Erik Seifert of 1x Internet
- Versions available: 2.0.8 and 2.1.6 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Test coverage
- 13 open issues, 5 of which are bugs on th 2.1.x branch
- Usage stats:
- 1,878 sites
- Module features and usage
- Allows for the creation of dashboards as exportable config entities, using Layout Builder to define the layout and placement of blocks
- It’s possible to create unique dashboards per user
- Out of the box you get a number of dashboards components to embed views, show recent errors, display content from RSS feeds, and more
- Dashboard components are defined using a new plugin base, so you can also create custom components to meet the unique needs of your site
- The dashboards are also optimized for use with Gin, which isn’t a surprise because 1x Internet is also a sponsor of the Gin admin theme. If your site is also using Gin then this module will provide a central dashboard that seamless integrate with the backend UI
- If you’re looking to implement dashboards on your site, you can also look at Moderation Dashboard and Homebox as other options. The latter of those is even more widely used, but mostly by D7 sites. That said, drupal.org is one of those sites, so if your team is active on drupal.org then the interface will be very familiar
- There is also a Dashboard Initiative that has been started by some core maintainers, so using one of these modules can set you up to weigh in on what the ideal state for the initiative might look like
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