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Published inAug 2023
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Luca Lusso
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Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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Integration with Storybook

Up to now, we have defined our components in Storybook and then incorporated them into Drupal; this involved using Twig.js and some extra work to ensure compatibility with Drupal’s JavaScript behaviors.

This approach has some pros and cons:

Pros

  • Build the component library in a (nearly) Drupal-independent way (you can start working on components without having a Drupal website)
  • Quickly move the component library to a new project
  • Simplify the building of complete pages on Storybook, starting from defined components

Cons

  • Twig.js differs from Twig, which may lead to some inconsistencies in components when viewed in Storybook versus Drupal
  • Storybook ignores the entire render pipeline of Drupal, which can also lead to inconsistencies
  • If a component uses some JavaScript from Drupal, you need to provide a way to include this in Storybook

SDC took the opposite approach: components are instead defined inside...

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Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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