drupal/devel

Various blocks, pages, and functions for developers.

5.3.1 2024-08-09 15:10 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• doctrine/common: ^2.7 || ^3.4
• symfony/var-dumper: ^4 || ^5 || ^6 || ^7

Requires (Dev)

• drush/drush: ^13
• firephp/firephp-core: ^0.5.3
• kint-php/kint: ^5.1

Suggests

• kint-php/kint: Kint provides an informative display of arrays/objects. Useful for debugging and developing.

Conflicts

• drupal/core: <10.3
• drush/drush: <12.5.1
• kint-php/kint: <3

GPL-2.0-or-later

README

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Introduction

Devel module contains helper functions and pages for Drupal developers and inquisitive admins:

• A block and toolbar for quickly accessing devel pages
• A menu tab added to entities to give access to internal entity properties
• Urls created to view the internal entity properties even when there is no menu tab, for example /devel/paragraph/n
• Debug functions for inspecting a variable such as dpm($variable)
• Debug a SQL query dpq($query or print a backtrace ddebug_backtrace()
• A block for masquerading as other users (useful for testing)
• A mail-system class which redirects outbound email to files
• Drush commands such as fn-hook, fn-event, token, uuid, and devel-services
• Devel Generate. Bulk creates nodes, users, comment, taxonomy, media, menus, block content for development. Has Drush integration.

This module is safe to use on a production site. Just be sure to only grant access development information permission to developers.

Collaboration

• https://gitlab.com/drupalspoons/devel is our workplace for code, MRs, and CI.
• Create a personal fork in order to make an MR.
• We plan to move bck to drupal.org once it uses Gitlab for issues.
• We auto-push back to git.drupalcode.org in order to keep Security Team coverage and packages.drupal.org integration.
• Chat with us at #devel on Drupal Slack.

Local Development

DDEV is configured with https://github.com/ddev/ddev-drupal-contrib for for easy local development, test running, etc.

Version Compatibility

Devel version	Drupal core	PHP	Drush
5.2+	10	8.1+	12+
5.0, 5.1	9,10	8.1+	11+
4.x	8.9+,9	7.2+	9+
8.x-2.x	8.x	7.0+	8+

Maintainers

See https://gitlab.com/groups/drupaladmins/devel/-/group_members.