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

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New England Drupal Camp @ Rhode Island College
Providence, RI
November 16, 2024
#NEDCamp2024
9am, Gaige Hall 201
#### When There's Not a Module for That: How to Make (and Maintain) a New Module
benjamin "mlncn" melançon
ben@agaric.coop
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### Agaric Technology Collective
![The Agaric logo, a blue outline mushroom.](content/images/agaric-icon.png)
presents
Note: my name's ben, i have been a worker and owner at the worker-owned Agaric cooperative since 2006.
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## When There's Not a Module for That:
### How to Make (and Maintain) a New Module
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### Be a part of something bigger
(but not as big as all of Drupal)
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
[drupal.org/project/bef_links_filter](https://www.drupal.org/project/bef_links_filter)
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### Steal, and keep stealing
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![A large button with the label "+ Add content block"](images/add-content-block-action-link.png)
Note: If you decide your module should have one of those button links you see at the top right of a bunch of pages in Drupal's administration, you *don't even need to know* that they are called "Action Links" and find a tutorial on making them. You can just go look in the code of a module you know has them, grep for the label, and steal the code around it.
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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)
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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To be continued…