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Building new modules using AI
I am setting up a playground to experiment with AI. My last post discussed developing and contributing a new Entity/Field Labels module to Drupal using AI. I look forward to seeing what I can create next. Before moving forward, I want to pause and explore how AI can assist me in managing and maintaining my existing contributed modules.
Maintaining my contributed modules using AI
Over the past decade, I’ve created and managed numerous contributed modules. I'm not sure how many there are, and it's been challenging to keep them all up to date. In the long run, I believe an AI agent with the right skills could help me manage my overwhelming list of modules. First, I need to clone my modules into my local development environment.
Cloning my contributed modules via Composer
It's unrealistic for me to manually clone each module's repository. Fortunately, Composer supports Git repositories. However, setting up and testing each module's Git repository using Composer can still be very time-consuming. Since AI excels at repetitive, predictable tasks, this is a perfect opportunity for me to let my AI assistant step in and make my life easier.
Using Agent skills to make things easier
Since cloning a Drupal repository for local development is quite straightforward, this presents a great opportunity to develop a custom agent skill. As with many AI-related tasks, it's best to seek help from the AI. Therefore, I prompted Claude to assist me in planning my drupalorg-project-clone skill.
Here is the front matter description of my new drupalorg-project-clone skill, which was generated by Claude Code and Codex.
Adding a dozen repositories to one's composer.json file makes it harder for humans to review dependencies....Read More
This is part three of a series of articles looking at HTMX in Drupal. Last time I looked at using HTMX to run a "load more" feature on a Drupal page. Before moving onto looking at forms I thought a final example of using HTMX and controllers to achieve an action.
One of the key examples that helped me understand HTMX was when it was used to create a tabbed interface, without reloading the page. This was quite simple to recreate in Drupal and can be done in a single controller.
In this article we will be creating a tabbed interface in Drupal, where HTMX is used to power loading the data in a tab like interface without reloading the page.
All of the code contained in this article can be found in the Drupal HTMX examples project on GitHub, but here we will go through what the code does and what actions it performs to generate content.
The first task is to create the route for our controller.
The RouteThe route we create here just points to an action in a controller.
drupal_htmx_examples_tabbed: path: '/drupal-htmx-examples/tabbed' defaults: _title: 'HTMX Tabbed' _controller: '\Drupal\drupal_htmx_examples\Controller\TabbedController::action' requirements: _permission: 'access content'When the user (assuming they have the access content permission) visits the path /drupal-htmx-examples/tabbed then they will trigger the action() method in the controller.
Let's build the controller that this route points to.
To say that there is not an agreement of using large language models (LLMs) for Drupal development would be an understatement. I've been using Claude Code for a while to assits with my Drupal development and I shared a month ago how I brought back the Drupal 7 module upgrader tool from the dead. That was a bit of an involved example, so I wanted to find a simpler one and this time rely even more on Claude.
Gábor Hojtsy Fri, 04/10/2026 - 12:20We’re excited to announce the release of LocalGov Bus Data — a new Drupal module built with and for councils, now available for the entire local government community to use.
markconroy 10th Apr 2026This is a guest post from the incredible team at DevBranch, a Drupal development team based in Lutsk, Ukraine.
Drupal Café Lutsk and Drupal Global Contribution Weekend (DGCW) have become regular opportunities to strengthen the Drupal community in Lutsk, Ukraine. Organized by the DevBranch development team, they connect developers and grow an active community both locally and within the global Drupal ecosystem.
Is Drupal Café Lutsk the biggest systematic free Drupal meetup?Drupal Café Lutsk became one of the largest events of this kind and one of the world’s leading Drupal meetups. It all started with the desire to promote this CMF to local programmers.
This idea took shape as free and offline meetups. Their format included two speakers giving sessions on technical Drupal topics in an informal setting. Recordings of the sessions were streamed on Facebook, but the main emphasis remained on live interaction among participants.
The first Café, held on February 18, 2016, attracted nearly 40 attendees. Such a strong start inspired the organizers to continue their mission of introducing more people to Drupal. Their creative peak was to put Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert’s, portrait on the logo. To everyone's sheer surprise, Dries himself replied to the email with a confirmation! As a result, the announcement of the next Café had the aforementioned logo.
Drupal Café Lutsk (18.02.2016)
One of the key challenges in organizing the event was finding the right venue. Since the primary goal was to create informal communication in a comfort zone with no recruitment or headhunting, the choice fell on open-space venues to rent.
Drupal Café Lutsk (05.08.2021)
This, however, was only at the beginning. As the company grew, DevBranch built its own office in late 2021. One of its rooms was a conference hall, which became the permanent venue not only for Drupal Café Lutsk, but also for other similar events.
Drupal Café Lutsk (23.10.2025)
Now, Drupal Café Lutsk is held four times a year. To attract more attendees and broaden the audience, a third session (non-technical IT-related) was added. From that point on, the number of attendees steadily grew and eventually exceeded 100 per event. Thanks to this, has Drupal Café Lutsk become the largest free recurring Drupal meetup in the world?
The initiative also received support from software agencies like AnyforSoft and YozmaTech. Their contributions helped provide dinners/afterparties and photos.
Drupal Global Contribution Weekend (DGCW) in Lutsk - 100+ successfully closed issues every event annually!
Another important contribution to the community’s development is the Drupal Code Sprint, based on the Drupal Association initiative — the Drupal Global Contribution Weekend. The association’s goal was to convene Drupal developers worldwide annually to collaborate on core, modules, themes, and documentation.
Drupal Global Contribution Weekend in Lutsk (25.01.2020)
The DevBranch’s idea was to join this initiative by arranging a local event. Their partners and friends — Drupal companies from different parts of Ukraine — were invited to join the Drupal Code Sprint as sponsors, mentors, and participants. Organizers provide an office location and all the necessary equipment, along with overall event administration. Sponsors — AnyforSoft, ImageX, Lemberg Solutions, Five Jars, UniOne, Sigma Software, and Mint Innovations — cover direct expenses such as lunch, mentors’ presents, and participants’ souvenirs.
Following the tradition established by the Drupal Association, the day for Drupal Code Sprints was set for the last Saturday of January. Those interested in participating choose the role of developer or mentor, depending on their expertise and availability of drupal.org issues. At the end of an all-day marathon, both contributors and mentors receive pleasant bonuses: souvenirs and gifts.
Drupal Global Contribution Weekend in Lutsk (25.01.2025)
As a result, Code Sprints became an accessible way for Ukrainian developers to contribute to community issues as part of a broader global movement. Beginners can make their first open-source contributions under the guidance of more experienced developers, who, in turn, finally have the time to contribute themselves :)
The outcomes spoke for themselves: 100+ successfully closed issues every event annually!
Drupal Ukraine Community banner at Drupal eventsWith the start of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, all those initiatives were put on hold. Many Ukrainians were stripped of the opportunity to attend global Drupal events in person. To highlight the impact of the war, DevBranch cooperated with AnyforSoft to create a banner with a simple message:
"Ukrainian Drupal Community: Absent from In-Person Events since 2022".
It has already traveled to DrupalCon Barcelona, DrupalCamp Ottawa, Drupal GovCon, DrupalCamp Finland+Baltics, DrupalCamp Ghent, DrupalCon Portland, Drupal Dev Days Belgium, Drupaljam, and DrupalSouth Melbourne, adding Ukrainian context to the global Drupal community.
Behind this journey stands the support of the community and those who helped make it happen. Props to all the event organizers and Lenny Moskalyk for her enormous assistance with logistics and for making sure the banners were in place!
If you are an event organizer and want to support Ukraine in such a way, just drop an email to merge@dev-branch.com! They can help from providing design assets, to printing a banner, and handling delivery to your venue.
Drupal Ukraine Community banner at Drupal events
When organizing all of these events, one of the key priorities was to create lively and in-person communication and urge a local IT community to grow. For this reason, all events were held on-site. Accordingly, with the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers deliberately suspended all such initiatives. Once regulations allowed gatherings in public spaces again, DevBranch brought back on-site events, taking care to provide attendees with masks and sanitizers.
However, this return to the in-person format took place shortly before the start of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine. And only thanks to the Defence Forces of Ukraine, it eventually became possible to organize on-site events again. No event now takes place without the company’s traditional fundraising for the needs of the Ukrainian military.
Drupal Global Contribution Weekend in Lutsk (25.01.2025)
Thus, despite all obstacles and the challenging conditions dictated by today’s Ukrainian realities, Drupal Café Lutsk meetups and DGCW code sprints continue to bring developers together, promoting this CMF in Ukraine, attracting new participants, and helping experienced specialists continue to grow.
Over the course of 10 years, a proud number of events have been organized:
All the local events highlighted Lutsk town as the Drupal capital of Ukraine!
You can see photos from every event here: https://devbranch.ua/events
One day, DevBranch was asked, ‘Are you a Drupal development team, or an events agency?’
The reply was ‘Yes :)’
Managing a council website is a high-stakes balancing act where a single accidental “publish“ can impact public trust. Learn more about how LocalGov Drupal solves this problem for councils.
Drupal site-builders rejoice! We currently have two major page building projects approaching production-maturity: Drupal Canvas and Display Builder. In this article series, I compare the two projects by implementing real world use cases from the perspective of a site-builder.
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