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Talking Drupal Newsletter #340

Mar 29
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Episode #340 - Storybook

Today we are talking about Storybook with Randy Oest.

www.talkingDrupal.com/340

Topics

  • What is Storybook

  • Why are component libraries so popular

  • Difference between Storybook and Patternlab

  • Why choose Storybook

  • Useful Addons

    • Docs

    • Controls

    • Accessibility

    • Screen Size

    • Figma

    • Zeppelin

    • Write your own

    • Chromatic visual testing

  • Integration with Drupal

  • Headless environments

  • Emulsify

  • When would you not use Storybook

  • Interesting use cases

  • Chromatic (not the Drupal agency)

  • Resources for getting started

Resources

  • Storybook

  • Emulsify

  • Mustache

  • Security update

  • Perimeter

  • Stencil

  • Storybook Tutorial

  • Emulsify

Guests

Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com @ultimike

Module of the Week

Perimeter
Basic perimeter defense for a Drupal site. This module bans the IPs who send suspicious requests to the site. The concept is: if you have no business here, go away.


Show News

  • Show host, John, will be at DrupalCon presenting “Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source.”

  • Our Talking Drupal YouTube Channel has reached 1,000 subscribers.

  • Drupal Easy podcast host, Mike Anello, has joined the show for four episodes.

Upcoming Episodes

#342 Acquia Code Studio with Matthew Grasmick. Recoding on April 5.
#343 Mike Anello’s topic of choice. Recording on April 12.
#344 Layout Builder with Kris Vanderwater. Recording on April 19.
#345 Live from DrupalCon. April 25-28

If you have questions or input on these topics, let us know before the recording date. @talkingdrupal on Twitter or #talkingdrupal on Drupal Slack.


Chad’s Book Corner

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp

This book is available in a few formats. It helps drive home the idea of rapid prototyping to test out ideas. This is a useful approach for your team to consider—side-stepping complexity and comprehensive solutions to validate what is valuable and effective. Don’t get overwhelmed by thinking big. Think SMALL! Save yourself time and money by starting simply. Tap into your team’s creativity and ingenuity.

by Chad Hester @chadkhester www.chadkhester.com

Overdrive

Many of Chad’s book recommendations are available on Overdrive for free. Overdrive provides free access to ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more through your local library or school.

Overdrive works with more than 76,000 public libraries, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and corporations in 94 countries worldwide.


Storage Entities Update

The Storage Entities module recently had a 1.2.0 update. Talking Drupal guest host, Martin Anderson-Clutz, is the co-maintainer. Storage Entities is a young module, with its first release in July 2021.

A new entity type for managing data that should be stored in the database, but only displayed within or associated with other content. If you're using a solution like Rabbit Hole to prevent direct access to an entire content type, that content might be better stored as storage entities.

Lightweight by design, but fieldable just like content types. This module is similar to Basic Data but where that module requires a "data" blob in addition to a name, this module only requires a name, and any other fields can be completely custom to suit your specific needs. Also, this module is designed to be revisionable and translatable.

A storage entity might be suitable for anything that does not logically fit into the concept of a node, paragraph or media entity, but where it makes sense to have a subset of fields. Think of a generic entity type for standalone objects.

A future Module of the Week!


Upcoming Camps

  • Drupal Developer Days Ghent, Belgium 2022 4/4 - 4/8, In-person

  • Drupal Camp NJ 5/27, In-personStorage Entities

  • Drupaljam Re:United 6/1, Virtual and in-person

  • Drupal Camp Asheville 2022 7/8 -7/9, In-person

Local Meetups

  • Drupal Providence 3/31, Virtual

  • Tampa Bay Drupal User Group: Live Forum / Q&A 4/7

  • Boston Drupal Meetup 4/12, Virtual

  • Introducing the Discover Drupal Initiative - Fox Valley Drupal 4/20, Virtual

  • Drupal DACH Online Meetup 4/21, Virtual

  • Discover Drupal through the eyes of a newcomer - Fox Valley Drupal 5/18. Virtual


Contact Us

@talkingdrupal on Twitter

#talkingdrupal on Drupal Slack

show@talkingdrupal.com

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