Introduction

Getting ready for launch.
Happy March. We're getting close to the official release date, April 4, of Craft 3. This issue kicks off with the official new Craft 3 Launch FAQ containing new details on what's happening next month.
This jam-packed issue also features news of multiple releases of Craft 2 & 3, loads of Craft tips and plugins.
Thank you to our sponsors of this issue.
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Also Peers Conference is fast approaching. A little bird told me about a cool GraphQL workshop there this year. Get your ticket.
Let's hit the links.
-John Morton
Top Stories
Craft 3 Launch FAQ ⭐️
Craft has posted an FAQ about the Craft 3 launch with details on licenses, Craft 2 support, Commerce Lite, and more.
News
Craft 3 RC11, RC12 and RC13 released
RC 11 has big improvement to how you set up multi-site installs plus the multi-site docs are now live. Lots of details in the changelog for RC12 and RC13 too.
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Tools, tips, and fundamentals
Running Craft CMS 3 on Laravel Valet ⭐️
Jalen Davenport continues from his previous article with more on Laravel Valet and Craft.
Neutrino: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love webpack
This episode of devMode.fm discusses "how Neutrino can make getting up and running using webpack a whole lot easier."
New to Craft? 8 Important Lessons I Learned During My First Projects
Michael Ramuta shares tips he's learned from working with Craft.
Tip for heavy queue jobs in Craft ⭐️
If you're using Craft CMS 3 and are running heavy queue jobs for things like image transform generation, template caches, etc. check out @o_stark 's Async Queue plugin to run them in a non-blocking background process.
via Andrew @nystudio107
Perfecting your technique
Using Content Migrations in Craft 3 ⭐️
Craft content migrations are now a thing in Craft 3. Want to know more? Read the post.
"We can use a migration to make changes to fields on a dev site, and then instead of having to make those same changes manually on the live site."
Building a SaaS app on Craft
Erik Reagan spoke at a Craft meetup in Manchester and these are the notes of that presentation.
Craft Docker by webmenedzser
"You just have to run the setup.sh file and in a couple of minutes (as the image building is quite long) you are ready to start using it."
DRY Templating with Twig and Craft CMS
"If you come to think of it, macros are DRY-heaven. You write a few lines of code, then call the macro as often as you want with different parameters and bits of information whenever it’s needed."
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Plugged In
Enupal Translate ⭐️
Translate your website templates and plugins into multiple languages. Bulk translation with Google Translate or Yandex. Now in the Craft 3 plugin store.
Craft Async Queue
Async Queue Handler for Craft 3 by Oliver Stark. This is the plugin mentioned in a tip from Andrew above.
Craft-pjax
Automagically return the headers and container that PJAX expects. (What the what? PJAX = pushState + ajax. Ok.)
Fix-fks
This is a first-party plugin which is a simple Utility plugin for Craft 3 that will restore any missing foreign keys in your database, if they’ve been stripped out by a DB server that doesn’t support FKs. This issue can crop up from time to time on older versions of MySQL.
Content Stats for Craft 3
See how many entries have been created for channels and structures in your Craft CMS website.
Comments
Verbb has the Craft 2 version live now with a sign up to get notified for the Craft 3 when it launches.
The Craft Advantage
The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and HHVM Benchmark (2018)
This just published (Feb 27, 2018) article is a "a deep dive into performance benchmarks across various platforms and see how different versions of PHP and HHVM stack up against each other" including a section on Craft CMS v 2.6.3011.
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
Wildbit: Craft Research
Wildbit is looking to the Craft community for feedback on some of their upcoming projects, a "new vision for Beanstalk: a workflow service." If you'd like to share your thoughts, check out the survey.
CodeNewbie: Which javascript framework should you learn?
Sarah Drasner explores the differences (and similarities!) between JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js, React, and jQuery, and what new developers should think about when deciding which tool to learn.
The Complete JavaScript Course: Build a Real-World Project
A Udemy course recommended in Slack recently.
Build User Interfaces by Composing CSS Utility Classes with Tailwind
Learn about Tailwind CSS from Simon Vrachliotis in this collection of videos at Egghead.io.
Modern Normalize
Normalize browsers' default style, now smaller, and targeting only normalizations for the latest Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Responsive Images 101, Part 3: Srcset Display Density - Cloud Four
Andrew mentioned that this is "probably the best series of articles on" responsive images.
HTML Source Order and When There’s No CSS ⭐️
Jen Simmons on source order. She’s been doing a lot of great videos recently. Definitely worth your time.