Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Selling Craft to clients, craft.dev, news, plugins and Craft tips.

Welcome to another collection of Craft links. Links about selling Craft to your clients. Links with news and updates. Links with tips, plugins and more. The Craft community comes through once again.

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News

Craft 3.1.15

The features of the ./craft console command has grown. Craft CMS v 3.1.15 added the resave/assets, resave/categories, resave/entries, resave/tags, and resave/users commands. If this interests you, look for the “Exploring the Craft CMS 3 Console Command Line” link later in this issue.

Craft Commerce 2.1.0.2

Commerce 2.1.0 added a built-in "Donation" type.

Craft 3.0.41

If you’re still holding out on the jump to 3.1, the 3.0.x branch addresses some cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a few other tweaks.

Craft 2.7.5

Craft 2.x is still getting updates. Suspended users are no longer shown when viewing pending or locked users. Like the 3.0.41 release, it also fixes some cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

craft.dev is now whitelisted

The .dev domain fell out of favor for local development after Google purchased it, making it an official TLD.

Once .dev became an official top-level domain, it would no longer work in Chrome as a developer's go-to domain for local development. Google has begun selling access to .dev, and the Craft CMS team has officially registered craft.dev. You may now return to using craft.dev for your local development because Craft has been updated to see it as a dev URL, as seen in the link above.

You might need to update your hosts file to redirect craft.dev back to localhost.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Craft CMS Webpack Foundation

Webpack / Laravel Mix build process for CMS. It includes Foundation-for-Sites framework.

Fetching routes into Twig templates in Craft CMS

Craft Snippets is a new site featuring reusable Craft components and other tips. The first post is about fetching routes in your templates.

Setting up Perch Runway, Craft CMS, Statamic and Laravel Valet

Interested in using Laravel Valet for your local development? Scott Gruber discusses getting it installed and then working with several popular CMS’s including Craft.

🧹Clean Code Tip 🧹from Jake Dohm

Jake suggests not passing settings in your Twig code that match the defaults. See his screenshot for details.

Component naming tip from Nathaniel Hammond

Nathaniel suggests using the {{_self}} Twig variable in your templates during development to make visually debugging your templates a bit easier.

Check out Andrew's Template Comments plugin for pre-packaged help doing a similar thing.

Netdata: Real-time performance monitoring, done right

Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers.

Performance Budget Calculator

"I want my site to load in (blank) seconds on a (blank) connection." (I can hear Gene Rayburn reading that sentence.)

Conveyor – A development workflow that keeps you in the zone

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Perfecting your technique

Taming Dexerto.com - One Million Hits At A Time

Matt Gray does another deep dive. This time he has a problem to solve with a Craft-powered site finding more success than anticipated.

[The site's traffic] has recently reached high enough volume to generate daily unique hits in the millions and total request counts in the tens of millions. Daily.

Exploring the Craft CMS 3 Console Command Line

Craft CMS 3 comes with many useful commands that can be executed via the console command line interface (CLI). In this article, we explore some of the more useful commands

Passing your Craft CMS data to Vue.js with Twig | Good Work

One of the unique challenges of using Vue JS with Craft CMS is how you get your data from Craft into Vue.

Jake Dohm offers a couple of solutions in his post.

Using Fractal with Craft CMS

Fractal by Clearleft is a recently-discovered tool that helps us build and document web component libraries and use them in our projects. We've spent some time working out how to use it with another one of our favorite tools, Craft CMS.

nystudio107/dotenvy:

Speed up your production sites by ditching .env for key/value variable pairs as Apache, Nginx, and shell equivalents.

Content Strategy - CTRL+CLICK CAST

Carrie Hane, a speaker at the first Dot All conference, is the guest on this episode of CTRL+CLICK. "Carrie explains what to expect with content strategy, where it fits in a project life cycle, plus the value this strategy brings to designers, developers, and clients."

Docker-based hosting on your own VPS

As I am a developer in love with Docker, I thought using it for production would be fun.

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Plugged In

Support contact mechanisms plugins

Ever wonder how to best support your plugin for your customers? So did Andrew. He asked the internet. Check out the results.

Plugins, the Plugin Store, and future versions of Craft

There was a good discussion in the #plugin channel Feb 22-23, 2019 about how plugins and the plugin store will be handled as Craft moves through major updates.

What happens to a Craft 3 plugin that isn't updated to Craft 4? Can developers disable plugins in the store? What about plugins that still work and are actively used that are no longer supported by the developer?

Now that we’re using Discord instead of Slack, the history of conversations isn't lost behind a paywall. You do have to be a member of the Craft Discord group, which is free to join.

This conversation kicked off around here.

Embedded Assets 2.0 released

Spicy Web has taken over maintenance of the popular Embedded Assets plugin, created by Benjamin Fleming. If you're updating from the previous version, "make sure you remove the old package by running composer remove benjamminf/craft-embedded-assets from your terminal."