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Test local development environments with ngrok

Local development is convenient and fast. It rids us of network latency and allows more rapid iteration while building a website. Ignoring that latency until you deploy can hurt your site's performance. Read more to learn a few techniques for doing initial performance testing on local sites.

A practical introduction to ES2015 Objects

Use AdvAgg Information tab to debug or optimize CSS and JS aggregates in Drupal 7

Although Drupal tries its hardest to combine CSS and JS in the most optimal way, sometimes it needs some guidance. Using a practical example, we'll become familiar with AdvAgg's information tab, letting us identify files within aggregates so that they can receive special processing within other Drupal hooks.

How I became a better designer at Design & Content: Part Two

Last month I attended the Design/Content Conference in Vancouver, BC. This week, I'm continuing my notes from my favorite sessions at the conference.

REST easy, part 5: Everybody get together

In this week's REST Easy tutorial, we tackle the process of adding entity references to your API endpoints. Entity references create relationships between two separate data structures in Drupal. Exposing that link within your API is critical to providing a comprehensive content model.

A practical introduction to ES2015 classes

Classes, in ES2015, provide constructors, static and instance methods, inheritance, and the ability to extend a class by another class. Best of all, you don't have to call classes "functions" anymore.