Talking Drupal #471 - Off The Cuff #9

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Today we are talking about Freemium Drupal Modules, The WordPress hub-bub, and Drupal, Now with AI with our hosts. We’ll also cover FullCalendar as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/471

Topics

Freemium Drupal
Wordpress controversy
Drupal CMS and AI

Resources

Guests Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted an interactive calendar to display your Drupal events with drag-and-drop rescheduling, and without using jQuery? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- FullCalendar
Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2010 by ablondeau, though I’ve been behind the most recent releases
- Versions available: 7.x-2.0 and 3.0.0-beta2 versions available, the latter of which supports Drupal 10 and 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release was this morning
- Security coverage, though technically the 3.0.x branch will have it once it’s stable
- Test coverage, minimal but on the roadmap
- Documentation - does have a user guide, but created for the D7 version, so newer documentation is needed
- Number of open issues: 337 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 3.0.x branch
Usage stats:
- 3,388 sites, though the vast majority of those are for the D7 version, since the 3.0.x branch is very new
Module features and usage
- No jQuery!
- Lots of configurability plus some extras specifically for Drupal
  - Drag-and-drop to alter events
  - Option to require confirmation
  - Can display toast-style notifications when updates are save
  - Double-click on a day or time to create an event at that time
  - Can display events from different content types, even if they use different fields to store dates, and yes, even different kinds of fields, so a mixture of core and Smart Date fields will work
  - You can set default colors and output type (block or the newer, list-item display), and the ability to override color based on content type or a taxonomy reference
- This module had been essentially dormant for over 4 years, but I decided to work with Jürgen Haas on reviving it after a similar and popular project called Fullcalendar View was not only marked as “Minimally maintained” and “Maintenance fixes only”, but the project page directed users to contact the maintainer to pay for a premium version, in order to use the current version of the Fullcalendar JS library, or to load events via AJAX, which as been an often-requested feature because Fullcalendar View has had common reports of performance problems on sites with lots of event data.
- Worse, the maintainer has closed as “won’t fix” issues that had community-provided patches, because he only wanted to provide said improvements in the paid, premium version
- In my work on the Events recipe for Drupal CMS, I knew that having a solid calendar would be important, and I didn’t feel good about relying on a module that seemed to be pushing users more and more towards a paid model. I’m grateful to Jurgen and everyone who worked on FullCalendar before us for creating such a robust and extensible code base

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