Published: September 19, 2024
My LocalGov Drupal contributions for week-ending September 20th, 2024
Do one thing, do it well - this week I spent most of my time creating a live preview module for microsites.
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Meetings and Meet-ups
- Merge Tuesday: Great meeting today discussing getting a stable release of LGD microsites released, and also our process for adding new features to LocalGov Drupal.
- Government Design System meetup: This was my third time representing LocalGov Drupal at the Government Design System meetup. This time we talked about performance measurement - how do we measure the success of our design system.
- Community Meetup: We had a very informative meetup this week, discussing the new Job Vacancies module as well as myself and Finn presenting our "Live Preview" work.
- Tech Group Drop-in: As usual, a very lively chat. This week Netcall integrations and SSO were on the agenda.
Code Contributions
I created a LocalGov Live Preview module to work with the microsites platform, which took up all my time this week, and encouragingly got a great response at the community meet-up.
I think this is going to be a game-changer for how councils and others put their microsites together. No more "make a change, click save, refresh page, rinse, repeat". Now you can see all the changes happening live.
Here's a video walkthrough of it: