Talking Drupal #425 - Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

Today we are talking about the a new Drupal Book Modernizing
Drupal 10 Theme Development, What’s new in Drupal 10 theming, and
tools that can help speed up theming with guest Luca Lusso. We’ll
also cover Admin Dialogs as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/425
Topics

Why write a book about Drupal theming

How does the book modernize theming

Who is the book for

Do you have to have a certain level of knowledge to start

What are some new aspects of Drupal 10 that are covered in
the book

Does the book talk about:

Javascript frameworks

Native Web Components



What tools outside of Drupal do you talk about

How did you conduct your research

Do you have plans to keep the github updated

How long did it take to write the book

Tech moves quickly, what is the shelf-life of the book

Future editions

Purchase from Amazon or Packt

Translation

Plans for another book

Resources

Admin Dialog Blog

Book github

Buy the book

Guests Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
MOTW Correspondent

Jacob Rockowitz - @jrockowitz
Admin Dialogs


Brief description: (from the maintainer)

The Admin Dialogs module improves the UI by reducing the
number of page loads. For example, instead of opening a
delete confirmation page, the module will show the form in a
dialog (modal) form.


https://www.chapterthree.com/blog/improve-drupal-admin-ui-new-admin-dialogs-module



Brief history

How old: Created on May 2023

Versions available: 1.0.x stable release

Last release: 1.0.17 - July 12, 2023



Maintainership

Actively maintained? Yes

Number of open issues: 6

Test coverage

No test coverage

Module is fairly simple and easy to manually test

Code quality is very good





Usage stats:

sites 150+



Maintainer(s):

Minnur Yunusov (minnur)

https://www.drupal.org/u/minnur

https://www.minnur.com/



Sponsor

Chapter Three



Module features and usage

Comes with the ability to add modal or off-canvas dialogs
to different links in Drupal.

Easy to use. Most features available after installing the
module.

Adds controls dialog type for operation links like Edit,
Delete etc.

Adds and controls dialog type for local tasks.

Adds and controls dialog types for local actions.

Ability to add dialogs via specified A tag paths.

Ability to add dialogs via specifying CSS selectors
(classes and IDs).

Adds option to control delete button dialog.

You can add support for your modules by adding configs
created in the module.

Experimental: Add loading spinner to form submit elements
on form submit.



Discussion

The module does one thing and does it really well

Require no initial configuration.

Worth reviewing common administration tasks for
contributed modules and deciding if a modal dialogs or
sidebar can improve the admin UX.