Talking Drupal #433 - Drupal 10 Masterclass

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Masterclass book, How
it’s different from other Drupal books, and why you need it on
your bookshelf with author Adam Bergstein. We’ll also cover
Dashboards as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/433
Topics

What is Drupal 10 Masterclass about

Who is this book for

Why did you write the book

Can you explain the subtitle a bit

How does this differ from other recent Drupal books

Can you tell us about the authoring experience

What can our listeners do to make this book a success

Do you think you’ll write another book

Simplytest.me update

Resources

Drupal 10 Masterclass: Build responsive Drupal applications
to deliver custom and extensible digital experiences to users

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman and Kevin
Quillen

Modernizing Drupal 10 theme development by Luca Lusso

Modern Drupal by Selwyn Polit

Rachel Lawson

Mike Herchel

Guests

Adam Bergstein - @n3rdstein
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to add a dashboard to your Drupal
site, to provide at-a-glance information to editors? There’s
a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Dashboards with Layout Builder



Brief history

How old: created in Nov 2019 by Erik Seifert of 1x
Internet

Versions available: 2.0.8 and 2.1.6 versions available,
the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained



Test coverage

13 open issues, 5 of which are bugs on th 2.1.x branch



Usage stats:

1,878 sites



Module features and usage

Allows for the creation of dashboards as exportable
config entities, using Layout Builder to define the layout
and placement of blocks

It’s possible to create unique dashboards per user

Out of the box you get a number of dashboards components
to embed views, show recent errors, display content from RSS
feeds, and more

Dashboard components are defined using a new plugin base,
so you can also create custom components to meet the unique
needs of your site

The dashboards are also optimized for use with Gin, which
isn’t a surprise because 1x Internet is also a sponsor of the
Gin admin theme. If your site is also using Gin then this
module will provide a central dashboard that seamless
integrate with the backend UI

If you’re looking to implement dashboards on your site,
you can also look at Moderation Dashboard and Homebox as
other options. The latter of those is even more widely used,
but mostly by D7 sites. That said, drupal.org is one of those
sites, so if your team is active on drupal.org then the
interface will be very familiar

There is also a Dashboard Initiative that has been
started by some core maintainers, so using one of these
modules can set you up to weigh in on what the ideal state
for the initiative might look like