Tagged Drupal

Looking Back, Looking Forward: DrupalCamp NJ, 2020

The Central NJ Drupal Group hosts one of my favorite Drupal camps in the northeast, and this year’s DrupalCamp NJ was no exception.

Location, Location, Location

Princeton University uses Drupal heavily, and gives back to the community by hosting the monthly Web Developers Central NJ Meetup and the annual camp.

This year’s camp was held in a new location, which will give us room to grow in the future. It is also closer to Princeton’s beautiful main campus.

Hook42 Team
DrupalCamp NJ Recap January 30 to February 1, 2020

A Beginners Quest to Exploring React Native with Drupal

My goal in this post is to explore creating a Drupal powered mobile app with React Native. With no prior experience with React Native or React JS myself, this is truly an exploratory quest. I do have some experience with Angular 2-7 and AngularJS before it, so I admit I might have some more familiarity with concepts and code structure. 

Hook42 Team
person holding iphone with homepage of react test on display

How to Streamline Update Hooks Using the Batch API

When maintaining a Drupal 8 site in production, it’s often necessary to make changes within the site’s database, specifically when it comes to modifying settings or data that is not handled by Drupal’s YAML file-based configuration management API. Some common examples of settings or data not handled by the configuration management API include the following:

Hook42 Team
Open laptop in coffee shop with Batch API Updates and Drupal 8 logo on screen

Attending DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019

With another DrupalCon wrapped up, it always takes some time for everything experienced to coalesce, and a couple of weeks after getting back from Amsterdam, I was thinking about the major takeaways this time round.

Amsterdam street view with DrupalCon logo overlaid

Drupal Core Initiative Meetings Recap - November 04 - November 08, 2019

As our team continues to contribute to the Drupal community, we've been attending a variety of Drupal Core meetings. After each meeting, we put together an overview or recap of key talking points from each discussion. Sometimes recaps are provided after the meetings, in those cases we simply organize those thoughts, with commentary of our own if needed, to have all the recaps in one place. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week, November 4th through November 8th.

Hook42 Team
Drupal Core Meetings November 2019 Week 1 Recap

Drupal Core Initiative Meetings Recap - October 28 - November 01, 2019

As our team continues to contribute to the Drupal community, we've been attending a variety of Drupal Core meetings. After each meeting we put together an overview or recap of key talking points from each discussion, or provide recaps given after the meeting to have all in one place. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week.

Hook42 Team
Drupal Core Meetings October 2019 Week 5 Recap

Drupal Core Initiative Meetings Recap - October 21 - 25, 2019

As our team continues to contribute to the Drupal community, we've been attending a variety of Drupal Core meetings. After each meeting we put together an overview or recap of key talking points from each discussion, or provide recaps given after the meeting to have all in one place. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week.

Hook42 Team
Drupal Core Meetings October 2019 Week 4 Recap

Hook 42 Earns Five Stars in First Review on Clutch

If you run a business or other organization with any online presence at all, you’ve probably hit a point where you wondered why Drupal and WordPress are so important. Building a CMS-based website isn’t as simple as download-and-play. Savvy site owners know that it’s best to rely on the expertise of experienced web developers to implement the appropriate solutions. Hook 42 offers developers versed in Drupal 7, Drupal 8, WordPress, Gatsby and more.

Hook42 Team
clutch 5 stars

Drupal Core Initiative Meetings Recap - October 14th-18th, 2019

As our team is expanding, and many people are contributing to the Drupal community, we've been attending a variety of Drupal Core meetings. After each meeting we put together an overview or recap of key talking points from each discussion. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week.

Hook42 Team
Drupal Core Meetings October 2019 Week 3 Recap