Pattern Lab with Drupal CMS What is Pattern Lab? As we encounter many frameworks and languages around us, we observe some of the basic "object oriented" and "design patterns" principles and rules being implemented. For example, there's “inheritance,” which is inheriting the property of one component or module and extending it, making it reusable across our application. "Decoupled" architecture is another principle, where in each component is independent of other…

DrupalCon Seattle is coming up: April 8-12, 2019 at Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. And if you’re starting to assemble your schedule, which you can conveniently do on the event site, we’ve got a session to recommend: Shockingly Fast Site Development with Acquia Lightning. The session, by Acquians Stephen Raghunath and Matthew Grasmick, is an introduction to Acquia Lightning, an open source Drupal distribution that addresses the…

Drupal 7 core, together with Drupal contrib (https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/modules), has the ability to ship a powerful platform for our digital requirements in the enterprise world. The multilingual feature is one of the prime reasons that Drupal is a distinguished and a preferred solution to achieve business goals. Drupal 8 includes the multilingual package in the core itself, while Drupal 7 requires some extra amount of effort to build this package as a whole to…

BLT (Build and Launch Tool) provides an automation layer for testing, building, and launching Drupal 8 applications. It is the default recommended tool used by Acquia Professional Services. We use BLT in Professional Services to sync databases, manage configurations, create artifacts for deployments, and tons of other things that -- most of the time -- save us time. If you have not tested it yet I’d recommend you to have a look: https://github.com/acquia/blt DDEV, on…