“This documentation is for modules. For themes, see Adding stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) to a Drupal theme. In Drupal 8 and later versions, stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) are loaded through the same system for modules (code) and themes, for everything: asset libraries.”
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“I don’t like mocks in unit testing (I use them, but don’t like them). It often results in tests that only assure some specific method was called with certain parameters. It is this approach that may lead some to think that writing tests is writing the code twice, and therefore a waste of time.”
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“Digital Ocean Functions is a serverless compute product Digital Ocean recently launched. It supports PHP as one of the runtimes, along with Node.js, Python, and Go.”
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“WebPageTest’s custom scripting functionality unlocks some very powerful testing capabilities, including being able to test multi-step user journeys and flows through your site and application. Writing those scripts, however, can sometimes be challenging.”
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“TL;DR: Use COUNT(), not COUNT(id), when you want to count rows. You have probably read in a bunch of different places that you shouldn’t use SELECT() in MySQL when you don’t need all the data. SELECT(*) selects all the columns in the table, not just the ones that you might need.”
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“In 2007, a group of engineers from Amazon published The Dynamo Paper, which described an internal database used by Amazon to handle the enorous scale of its retail operation.”
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“Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking. In 1964, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan published his opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In it he writes, “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.”
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“You probably won’t finish this article. In fact, I may have already lost you to another tab in your browser. Or an email from your boss. Or a ping from a coworker. Or any number of other digital distractions that have come to define modern life.”
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I was testing out a bash script on my Mac and the script had some code to switch the shell from /bin/zsh to /bin/bash so that I would have similar shell to the servers the code would run on. There was also code to switch it back to /bin/zsh but I think with the script … Continued
“Redwood and Blitz are two up-and-coming full-stack meta-frameworks that provide tooling for creating SPAs, server-side rendered pages, and statically generated content, providing a CLI to generate end-to-end scaffolds.”
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“One thing that many macOS users don’t know is that they are using a completely outdated version of the Bash shell. However, it is highly recommended to use a newer version of Bash on macOS, because it enables you to use useful new features. This article explains how to do this.”
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“Docker Desktop failed me, and at the time (13th July 2022) of writing this article, Hyperkit, VirtualBox, and other hypervisors specified here don’t work on the Apple M1 chip. Weeks ago, while using Docker Desktop, it suddenly got stuck in a start-stop loop.”
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“A secure authentication system is an important part of most full stack web development projects.”
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“Today I’m starting my very first accessibility check. I’ll be auditing websites to see how well they implement accessibility and pointing out the problems and items that need improvement.”
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“It is a common database pattern to increment an INT column when an event happens, such as a download or page view. You can go far with this pattern until bursts of these types of events happen in parallel and you experience contention on a single row.”
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“When to use a trait? Never. On the other hand, there are several problems with traits. For instance:”
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“Thanks to the Wix editor, when working with Velo you don’t need to deal with html/css when developing UI. Instead you get a full blown WYSIWYG editor where you can create the UI for your application.”
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“Sage uses Laravel’s Blade(opens new window) templating engine. This gives you access to the Blade templating language, which includes a number of useful features.”
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“In the previous article A Hands-on Introduction to Fine-Grained Reactivity I explain the concepts behind fine-grained reactivity through example. Now let’s look at building a reactive library ourselves.”
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