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I would like to share my experience on the last time I implemented the Migration API on Drupal 8, a heads-up before jumping to write code: keep calm. This topic might looks overwhelming on first sight, what I hightlight recommend you to take one step back, relax and prepare yourself to read in order to understand how it works.

Migration API is described as a process which extracts data from a source, then transforms the given data to load it into a destination:

Is there a simplest way to put them together without an headache? There are cases where you need to improve your UX, then you might think on include a powerful javascript framework, however it seems that you need to install some extra pieces of software to just get started, even tho if you only want to include one single feature.

There is a documentation on official PHP website about how to consume a SOAP service by using "SoapClient" class. I faced a no-WSDL mode integration, here I will share the way I achieved it.

DRY (Don't repeat yourself) is a principle of software development, have you hear about that? Sometimes on Drupal while we are developing a custom module, there are some common tasks, features that we probably need to implement, instead of create our custom solutions, what if I told you that Drupal provides, let's say, a toolbox with common functions and useful classes to make our lives easier.

Google Analytics (GA) Allows us to tracking everything into our pages. we could add new events using Drupal JavaScript Behaviors.

Drupal has a module called Google Analytics, this module has already implemented GA common features, then this article will give you a brief step by step to implement a custom GA event using a Drupal javascript behavior.

Drupal give us an excellent documentation about how to setup our settings file, but what about if we are developing our site using a local environment, what shall we know? which are the best practice that we must keep in mind.

On web security we need to be two steps ahead, then if we expose any resource or path we should not trust that any request is coming from our page. Drupal implements token validation to achieve that, on this page we walk through on a simple example about how do that.

Basically we should use two functions that Drupal provides us,