In Drupal 7, we front end developers could hack away a most themes and modules to get the output we needed with dpm and a little hutspa. Drupal 8's sophisticated code base means we need a few more tools to get and modify our data beyond what Twig provides. This session will be a survey of browser extensions, modules, applications and PHP tricks that will make debugging and variable inspection a great deal easier. Each tool will be shown with a video demonstration.
Tools we'll cover:
- Error Logs
- Browser Developer Tools
- Drupal Debug Settings
- Drupal Template Helper
- Drupal Console
- PHP and Twig Dump Functions
- Symfony Vardumper
- Twig Tweak
- Kint (and how to optimize it)
- Webprofiler
- Xdebug
- devel_breakpoint
- try/catch
- Writing to File
- Writing to Database
- Cache Busting
- IDE
