Talking Drupal Newsletter #333
Today we are talking about Behat with Chris Burgess.
Topics
Nic - Wordpress subtheme
Abby - Wix site – Game of the Week Sable
Chris - OSA Role appointment and summer holidays
John - Squid Games – Snow
Description of Behat
How it works
Managing Expectations
Where in the development cycle
How to write tests for Behat
Best Practices
How far do you get out of the box?
Favorite Addons
Getting Started
Resources
Behat goodies:
Read the docs!
Guests
Chris Burgess - https://chris.bur.gs @xurizaemon
Hosts
Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Abby Bowman - www.linkedin.com/in/arbowman @abowmanr
Module of the Week
SVG Image
This module changes default image field widget and formatter to allow use SVG image with the standard Image field.
More on SVG
In the module of the week, Nic talked about SVG Image module. Listener, and future guest host (oops that slipped out), Martin Anderson-Clutz, shared additional information on the Drupal slack about SVG and the SVG Image Field module. He wrote:
Since this week's episode mentioned using SVG images with Drupal, I thought I should put in (shameless) plug for the SVG Image Field module.
Instead of trying to change core fields to work with SVGs, it provides a new field type, and also an optional submodule that creates a new media bundle, for Vector Images.
By not trying to put vector images into fields that expect raster images, it tends to break fewer other modules in the media ecosystem. Also, it makes it easier to enforce if you have some fields you want to accept vector images and not raster ones (or vice versa).
Finally, it also has an inline formatter, so the SVG code gets output directly into the page HTML. If using this option, it uses an SVG sanitizer by default (since theoretically, an SVG can contain malicious code).
by Martin Anderson-Clutz @mandclu
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Abby’s Game of the Week
Roguelike Video Game Edition
Hades (PC and consoles)
Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler in which you defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash your way out of the Underworld of Greek myth.
“Roguelike” games normally stress me out with their high difficulty, randomly generated levels, and frequent deaths/restarts. But Hades became my surprise favorite game of 2021. I’ve spent more than 100 hours perfecting the art of dying and getting to know the rich cast of family and frenemies along the way. The story, art, and voice acting are all incredible, which is no surprise coming from Supergiant Games (see Bastion and Transistor). Even if you don’t usually like dungeon crawlers, you owe it to yourself to give Hades a try. Give Cerberus a pet for me.
