Jekyll2021-03-07T07:31:14+11:00http://store.jibran.life/feed.xmlA personal website to share suggestions, thoughts, opinions, recommendations, and expressions by Jibran IjazJibran Ijaz2021-03-07T00:00:00+11:002021-03-07T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/working-on-govcms-7-siteJibran Ijaz

I have not yet worked on any GovCMS site 7 or 8. I haven’t worked on Drupal 7 site in a while as well. Last week, at work, I was working on a support ticket for site which was built using GovCMS 7.

2021-03-06T00:00:00+11:002021-03-06T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/drupal-contribution-report-week-09-2021Jibran Ijaz

This week I was quite busy with the work so didn’t get a chance to contribute a lot.

2021-02-27T00:00:00+11:002021-02-27T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/drupal-contribution-report-week-08-2021Jibran Ijaz

Let’s try something new…

2020-05-15T00:00:00+10:002020-05-15T00:00:00+10:00http://store.jibran.life/using-drupal-diff-component-custom-formsJibran Ijaz

Drupal 8 comes with a Diff component in core. It's mainly used for showing changes to configuration or content revisions. However, it can be used in other ways too. Here are some quick steps to show how to use the Diff component in your custom forms or controllers.

2019-09-24T00:00:00+10:002019-09-24T00:00:00+10:00http://store.jibran.life/jsonapi-drupal-88-up-3x-faster-than-drupal-87Jibran Ijaz

Drupal 8.8.0 will be released in December 2019 and the upcoming changes in JSON:API module codebase introduce huge performance benefits.

2018-12-04T00:00:00+11:002018-12-04T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/introducing-drupal-testing-traits-drupal-extension-testing-existing-sitesJibran Ijaz

Drupal allows writing tests for installation profiles. A profile can have sample content which is created during installation, like umami in Drupal core. Drupal allows writing tests for modules as well. A module can also have sample content which is created during installation or config import.Drupal Testing Traits allows writing tests for an already installed site. A site with content types and content. You can write tests for the all the pages in your site in different viewports and test user interactions aka JavaScript tests.

2018-10-08T00:00:00+11:002018-10-08T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/how-keep-your-drupal-8-contributed-modules-ready-drupal-9Jibran Ijaz

In this blog post, we'll have a look at how contributed Drupal modules can remove the core deprecation warnings and be compatible with both Drupal 8 and Drupal 9.

2018-08-14T00:00:00+10:002018-08-14T00:00:00+10:00http://store.jibran.life/testing-drupal-webdriver-browser-mode-vs-headless-browser-modeJibran Ijaz

There is not a lot of documentation available about what's the difference between running a browser in WebDriver mode vs Headless so I did some digging...

2018-06-18T00:00:00+10:002018-06-18T00:00:00+10:00http://store.jibran.life/how-create-and-expose-computed-properties-rest-api-drupal-8Jibran Ijaz

In Drupal 8.5.0, the "processed" property of text fields is available in REST which means that REST apps can render the HTML output of a textarea without worrying about the filter formats.In this post, I will show you how you can add your own processed fields to be output via the REST API.

2017-03-24T00:00:00+11:002017-03-24T00:00:00+11:00http://store.jibran.life/migrating-drupal-7-file-entities-drupal-8-media-entitiesJibran Ijaz

The Drupal 8.3.x branch is getting ready to introduce a new experimental media module. This will bring enhanced media handling in Drupal 8. The closest solution in Drupal 7 to handle media is the file entity module. Now is the time to discuss migrations from file entity in Drupal 7 to media entities in Drupal 8. For core, there is already an issue for this, but for contrib... there is no migration. So, I wrote one.