Dropcast Episode 29 - ZackAttack!

Recorded February 9th, 2017

Theme Manager and guy who kills me in TitanFall 2 and BattleFront all the time Zack Hawkins is here to talk all things front end with Mario. As always we’ll have some news and events, we actually got email so the MailDrop makes a rare return, and as always, Ryan ignores us as he plows through the Final Bell.

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• Mario: Rethinking Theme Structure in Drupal 8 by Zack Hawkins

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1. Tell us about yourself (where do you live, come from, family, etc.)

2. How did you get started as a developer and with Drupal?

3. You’re a theme manager for Mediacurrent, what does that mean?

4. Theme generator - Will be available in github soon

5. What do you think is one of the biggest trend happening now in the front-end world?

6. What most excites you about what’s happening with Drupal 8’s front-end?

7. Style guide & Components

8. What is your process for analyzing what’s happening in front-end and determine if a given tool or process should be adopted by Mediacurrent?

9. What would you like to see Drupal 8 do that you think it’s not currently doing now?

10. Any advice to front-end developers out there who feel overwhelmed or discouraged by the vast amounts of tools, processes or techniques when building apps?

11. Finally, any recommendations for where to go to get the latest on front-end, drupal as far as tools, processes, resources? (*cough* DrupalTwig.slack.com).

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• Drupal Composer: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project"

  • thom8/drupal8-vagrant: Installs a quick vagrant and checked out Drupal instance so you can start contributing to core.

  • Spinning Up the Drupal Environment with Drupal VM

• Thomas Charging Hawk (@tchwk): what about your job as Drupal developers keeps you up at night?

• SANDCamp - Feb 16 -18 in San Diego, CA

• Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 17 - 19 in Orlando FL

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• NERD Summit - March 18 -19 in Amherst MA

• MIDCamp - March 30 - April 1 in Chicago

• DrupalCon News: Get Ready for DrupalCon Baltimore

• Drupal Camp Utah - May 12th in Sandy UT

• Loading and Using JavaScript in Drupal 8 Todd Zebert

• Transitioning from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8: Programmatically Creating Blocks Blair Wadman

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