Talking Drupal #557 - Test-Driven Drupal eBook - Talking Drupal | Lyssna här

Today we are talking about Test Driven Development, ebooks, and Drupal with guest Oliver Davies. We'll also cover Juicer Social Feed as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/557

Topics

What Is Test Driven Drupal
Why Automated Tests Matter
How TDD Works
AI and Test Quality
Balancing Test Coverage
When to Write Tests
Why Write the Book
Why Write an Ebook
From Email Course to Ebook
Ebook vs Print Tradeoffs
Who the Book Helps
What You Will Learn
Keeping Content Updated
Publishing Tools Workflow
Lessons and Drupal Changes
Podcast and Future Books
Mob Programming Explained
Free Ebook and Wrap Up

Resources

Guests

Oliver Davies - oliverdavies.uk opdavies

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to embed social feeds into your Drupal website? There's a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Juicer Social Feed
Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2026 by Denis Omerović (drupalchille)
- Versions available: 1.0.2, that works with Drupal 10.3 or 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained (version released today!)
- No open issues
Usage stats:
- 4 sites
Module features and usage
- This module embeds an aggregated social media feed from Juicer.io directly into Drupal as a configurable block. It natively supports content from Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X (Twitter), TikTok, Bluesky, YouTube, and more.
- Traditionally, displaying feeds from platforms like Facebook, X, or Instagram requires creating developer accounts, managing rotating OAuth tokens, and keeping up with constantly shifting API restrictions. Juicer handles all API authentication on its platform, shielding your website from sudden breaking changes by individual social networks.
- To use this module, you will need an active account on Juicer.io. They offer both free and paid tiers depending on how many sources you want to aggregate and how frequently you need the feed to sync.
- The module is created and maintained by the official Juicer.io team. That should ensure that the module is closely aligned with the product's features and any potential API changes over time.
- The embedded feed is made available as a Drupal block, to make it easy to control where it should appear on your site.
- When placing the Juicer block, the UI exposes several user-friendly settings:
- Feed Slug: Just paste your unique Juicer feed ID to establish the connection.
- Post Limit: Control exactly how many items populate initially.
- Source Filtering: If your Juicer account aggregates five networks, but you only want to show LinkedIn posts on a specific page, you can filter down to a single network right inside the block settings.
- SEO/Semantic Control: You can set titles/subtitles and choose the exact heading level hierarchy ( through ) to ensure your pages remain semantically correct and accessible.
- I did get a chance to test out the module and the service today, and I can tell you from experience, it's a huge improvement on having to create and pull in feeds directly. I did notice that the block didn't show up in the Drupal Canvas component library, but I was able to determine that two lines of code to declare the block as FullyValidatable were all that was needed. So I opened a Feature Request to add that, and it was merged in and a new release cut in less than an hour. So it's now Drupal Canvas compatible too!
- It's worth pointing out that the standard Juicer's embed script loads HTMX, which conflicts with the version of HTMX included in Drupal 11 core. As a result, the module fetches feed HTML directly from the Juicer API and includes a minimal HTMX shim to prevent errors.
- John, you nominated this module, why don't you start us off by telling us about how you got started using it?

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