Build something useful in one day with Mark Conroy

This week on the Beyond Blocks podcast, I'm joined by Mark Conroy - Director of Development at Annertech to discuss all things front-end development and building something useful in one day.

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Talking points

Building better websites faster, including Drupal distributions, such as LocalGov.

What Drupal gives you out of the box and using the right tool for the job.

Drupal migrations and migrating Drupal configuration from a spreadsheet.

Saving time and improving efficiency by standardising base builds with Docksal and Composer.

How to build projects, like the Running Plan Generator, in a day and training for 10Ks and marathons.

Prioritising tasks.

Annertech's development workflow and standardisation by developing on remote servers.

Why you may not need preprocessors and complicated front-end build tools, and reducing complexity using vanilla CSS, JavaScript and web components.

Lowering the barrier to entry to contribute to open-source projects.

Building a design system/component library with web components.

The Content Access by Path module that was developed for Essex County Council.