The author provides examples and code snippets to illustrate the implementation of factories in various scenarios, including using factories with DI containers and managing complex object creation through factories.
The article points out common examples of this anti-pattern, such as assigning the current request object, entity storage, or configuration objects directly to properties instead of retrieving them when needed.
The article demonstrates how the Drupal Project Browser allows frontend developers to create new Drupal projects, clone existing ones, and manage project dependencies with just a few clicks.
Matt also writes about other modules like Linkit, CodeSnippet and Entity Embed in the blog post. CodeSnippet is coming to Drupal core in Drupal 10. The blog post contains the process of replacing Entity Embed with the Media Library.
The post is taken from his talk ‘Lessons learned from helping port the top contrib projects to Drupal 10’ at MidCamp 2023. Matt also lists down his guidelines and recommendations for semantic versioning.
