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Published inAug 2023
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ISBN-139781803238098
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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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Programmatic blocks

The demo website has two blocks defined by modules: one that renders a random quote and one that renders the weather forecast of the next hour for the origin location of a trip.

Blocks are defined as plugins and must follow a set of rules to be available on the frontend, but in the end, a block will return a render array exactly as a controller does.

Both blocks are already available in the alps_quote and alps_weather modules. The weather forecast one, for example, returns this render array:

$build['content'] = [
  '#theme' => 'alps_weather_forecast_single',
  '#forecast' => $forecast['list'][0],
  '#city' => $city,
  '#units' => $this->config
    ->get('alps_weather.settings')->get('units'),
  '#cache' => [
    'max-age' => 10800...
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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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