Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Happy new year, Craft friends! 🎉

After some time off and reflection on 2021, we’re back at it with fresh enthusiasm for the year ahead. We hope you had a nice holiday and are excited for the new year, too!

Let’s hit the links.

News

craftcms/cms

Craft CMS had five releases since our last issue—now at 3.7.27—with convenient enhancements for color field data and images, accessibility improvements, and a smattering of bug fixes and refinements.

craftcms/commerce

Craft Commerce got four releases since our last issue, currently at 3.4.9.3. These were mostly bug fixes, with the minimum Craft CMS version bumped to 3.7.25.

Conditional Fields Headed to Craft 4

Brandon offered a sneak peek at a much-requested feature that’ll ship with Craft 4.

New: Craft CMS and Craft Commerce Events Pages

Each got a brand new Events pages with exhaustive, searchable events and an event code generator:

Craft CMS Developer Benchmark 2021

Matt Ellis published Honcho’s unofficial Craft developer survey results from 242 developers across 33 countries.

pluginfactory.io Almost Six Years Old!

As discussed on devMode.fm, Andrew may retire it when Craft 4 rolls out.

Craft CMS Stack Exchange Drops Beta Tag

The Craft CMS Stack Exchange finally ditched its beta tag!

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

How To Run Craft CMS On Amazon Lambda

A wonderfully-thorough guide to running Craft on AWS Lambda.

Editor’s note: we missed this in May, and those responsible for including it in the CLL have been frowned at severely by the editorial board.

CraftQuest Recap

CraftQueston Call 35: 12 Things We Learned in 2021: Ryan clearly had fun editing an intro for this insightful retrospective discussion.
CraftQuest Development Workflow: Ryan walks through his CraftQuest development workflow like Bob Ross walks you through a painting.
I’m Tired of Keeping Up With New Stuff!: Ryan and Andrew discuss motivation and burnout.
How to Troubleshoot a Database Connection Issue: Ryan and Andrew talk troubleshooting database connection issues without once mentioning this article.
Deprecating Twig Templates and Template Blocks: Ryan deprecates Twig templates and blocks using the deprecated tag and a DIY version.
Starter Code for Craft CMS: Code examples and boilerplate projects using Docker, DDEV and example Twig templates.
Control Flow in Twig: Course on the fundamentals of control flow in Twig.