Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #452 Starshot & Experience Builder.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/452
Topics
- What is Starshot
- What is Experience builder
- How will Starshot build on Drupal Core
- Will Experience builder be added to Core
- Listener thejimbirch:
- When will people hear about their pledge
- Listener brook_heaton:
- Will experience builder be compatible with layout builder
- Will Experience builder allow people to style content
- Listener Matthieu Scarset
- Who is Starshot trying to compete with
- Listener Andy Blum
- Does the DA or other major hosting companies plan to set up cheap, easy hosted Drupal
- Listener Ryan Szarma
- Who does this initiative serve in the business community
- How can people get involved
Resources
Guests
Lauri Eskola - lauriii
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash
MOTW Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have your modules create content when they're installed? There's a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Oct 2015 by prolific contributor Lee Rowlands (larowlan) though the most recent releases are by Sascha Grossenbacher (Berdir), also a maintainer of many popular Drupal modules
- Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha2, which works with Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Security coverage: opted in, but needs a stable release
- Test coverage
- Documentation
- Number of open issues: 105 open issues, 29 of which are bugs against the current branch
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- Provides a way for modules to include default content, in the same way that many modules already include default configuration
- The module exports content as YAML files, and your module can specify the content that should be exported by listing the UUIDs in the info.yml file
- It also provides a number of drush commands, to export a single entity, to export an entity and all of its dependencies, or to bulk export all of the content referenced in a module's .info.yml file
- There is also a companion project to export default content using an action within a view, which also makes me think it could probably be automated with something like ECA if you needed that
- Exported content should be kept in a content directory in your module, where it will imported during install on any site that has the default_content module installed
- I thought this would be a good module to cover today because Drupal core's recipe system also includes support for default content, so when you install a recipe it will similarly import any YAML-encoded content in the recipe. In fact, I used this module for the first time exporting taxonomy terms I wanted a recipe to create as default values for a taxonomy it creates. Since Recipes will be a big part of Starshot, I expect default_content to be getting a lot of use in the coming months
