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The client recently asked me:

“I want to change how the Taxonomy Vocabulary page works. It should have a custom filter and more columns, but you should keep the default functionality like sorting, hierarchy, etc. Also, I want this change to apply only to a few vocabularies, not all of them.”

Most of us are familiar with Route Subscribers, which can be used to alter route defaults. However, they’re executed before the actual request, so we don’t have access to the real values of the route parameters — meaning we can’t make decisions based on them.

That’s where the Route Enhancer comes into play.

fileAutoUpload core js-once behavior detaches if the form is replaced with AJAX, resulting in new file uploads not triggering file preview loads. I had to investigate it and find a temporary hot fix.

The client wanted for a button in the modal to add the product to the cart. The button was rendered dynamically via a dialog options attribute.

We all know that Drupal automatically moved form buttons into the jQuery UI dialog buttons pane. We also know that we can supply custom buttons via the data-dialog-options attribute. But it's impossible to supply a click callback for a button via the data-dialog-options attribute.

You may need to do this if you didn't use text long when creating a field and are now building a custom migration, and some source values are too long for the field you created🙄

If you need to do it in a live environment, use the following code snippet to create a custom Drush command or an update hook. In my case, I just run it as a script locally because the situation allowed it.

Often, when supporting older projects, you can't make significant changes and must work within existing constraints. You may then need to render a newly created hero banner on a page with limited width.

Use this CSS to make an element full-width even if the block's parent has max-width:
margin-left: calc(50% - 50vw);
margin-right: calc(50% - 50vw);

A very useful plugin when dealing with huge .ai files and preparing them to be properly parsed by the PDFLib TET: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2008/11/23/merge-text-extension-for-illustrator/

Remember to run this command after modifying Apache configurations to ensure everything is working correctly.

apachectl configtest

git format-patch -1 <commit-hash> --stdout > my-change.patch

Useful Drush command, just specify the entity type:

drush entity:delete <entity-type>

Drupal keeps surprising even after so many years :) Just set the #required_error attribute to the desired message in the form element render array.

I remember back in the days we would use \Drupal::messenger() to clear the messages and set our own error if needed the custom texting. LOL

When you need your code to run well on different versions.

Great module for exposing entity reference filters in Views, using the Entity Reference source view as dropdown options.

https://www.drupal.org/project/entityreference_filter

Drupal renders remote videos as iframes. Here is how you can set a ratio for an iframe to make it behave similarly to the HTML <video> tag? This is applicable to more than just videos.

Cool module: https://www.drupal.org/project/config_view

Useful when you need to create a view based on config entities. It enables you to create an Entity Autocomplete source View on config entities with your conditions.

Config Pages is excellent, but there are times when you need a quickly set up an exportable config. This module makes it fast.

https://www.drupal.org/project/parameters

A fast way to clean or inspect large files. Use sed to delete specific lines and head to preview files.

git add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard)