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2024-nedcamp-when-not-a-module-make-and-maintain.md

@@ -21,40 +21,46 @@ Note: my name's ben, i have been a worker and owner at the worker-owned Agaric c
 
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-## When There's Not a Module for That:
-### How to Make (and Maintain) a New Module
+## When There's *Not*
+## a Module for That:
+### How to Make (and Maintain)
+### a New Drupal Module
 
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 ### Be a part of something bigger
 (but not as big as all of Drupal)
 
+#### Commerce
+#### Extra Field
+#### ECA
+#### Search API (and friends)
+
 Note: Build on or with some major —and with luck join a community of 
 
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-#### Commerce
-
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-
-#### Extra Field
-
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-
-#### ECA
-
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-
-#### Search API
-
-And friends including Facets and Better Exposed Filters
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-
-##### BEF Links Filter
+##### Example: BEF Links Filter
 
 [drupal.org/project/bef_links_filter](https://www.drupal.org/project/bef_links_filter)
 
+Search API's friends include Facets and Better Exposed Filters
+
+Note: By extending BEF Links module, we were able to get a lot of power— with a much better user experience, thanks to our ~250 lines of code altogether.
+
+----
+
+#### Look for plugin opportunities
+
+Literally, look for plugins,
+
+in `src/Plugin` of whatever modules you are operating in the vicinity of.
+
+BEF Links Filter is a `better_exposed_filters` plugin in about 250 lines of code altogether.
+
+
+Doing your own or copying 
+
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 ### Steal, and keep stealing
@@ -68,10 +74,22 @@ Note: If you decide your module should have one of those button links you see at
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-![grep -nHIRs "Add content block" web/core/ with a half-dozen results, including web/core/modules/block_content/block_content.links.action.yml:9 and a bunch of results in tests.](images/add-content-block-action-link.png)
+![grep -nHIRs "Add content block" web/core/ with a half-dozen results, including web/core/modules/block_content/block_content.links.action.yml:9 and a bunch of results in tests.](images/grep-add-content-block-action-link.png)
 
 Note: Grep.  Even when i am fully using an IDE for everything else, i grep in the regular command line when looking for text in a file.  This habit is probably fueled more by failing to tell the IDE to index Drupal core and contrib modules more than anything else.
 
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+
+!["block_content_add_action:
+  route_name: block_content.add_page
+  title: 'Add content block'
+  appears_on:
+    - block.admin_library
+    - entity.block_content.collection
+  class: \Drupal\block_content\Plugin\Menu\LocalAction\BlockContentAddLocalAction"](images/yml-add-content-block-action-link.png)
+
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 To be continued…
+
+Note: Let me know what you build!