Talking Drupal #474 - Revolt Event Loop

Today we are talking about the revolt event Loop, what it is, and why it matters with guest Alexander Varwijk (farvag). We’ll also cover IEF Complex Widget Dialog as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/474
Topics What is an event loop
Why does Drupal need an event loop
What will change in core to implement this
What problem does this solve
Does this make Cron cleaner and long running processes faster
What impact will this have on contrib
How would contrib use this loop
What does this mean for database compatibility
What inspired this change
Test instability
Why Revolt
Will this help with Drupal AI
Resources Adopt the Revolt event loop for async task orchestration
revoltphp/event-loop was added as a dependency to Drupal Core
Add "EventLoop::run" to Drupal Core
Migrate BigPipe and the Renderer code that's currently built with fibers
Revolt Playground that shows converting some Fiber implementations from Drupal to the Event Loop
DrupalCon Barcelona Talk about "Why Async Drupal a Big Deal Is"
Async PHP libraries https://reactphp.org/
https://amphp.org/

Guests Alexander Varwijk - alexandervarwijk.com Kingdutch
Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Joshua "Josh" Mitchell - joshuami.com joshuami
MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Brief description: Have you ever wanted to use Inline Entity Forms but have the dependent form open in a dialog? There’s a module for that.

Module name/project name: IEF Complex Widget Dialog

Brief history How old: created in Mar 2020 by dataweb, though recent releases are by Chris Lai (chrisck), a fellow Canadian
Versions available: 2.1.1 and 2.2.2, the latter or which is compatible Drupal 8.8 or newer, all the way up to Drupal 11

Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release in the past month
Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are bugs against the current version

Usage stats: 273 sites

Module features and usage When you install the module, your Inline Entity Form widget configuration will have a new checkbox, to “Enable Popup for IEF”
Includes specialized handling for different kinds of entities, like nodes, users, taxonomy terms, and users
Will handle not just the creation forms, but editing entities, and also duplicating or deleting entities
Not something you would always need, but can be very useful if the form you want to use for entity or even parent forms that are complex
I should also add that IEF supports form modes, so often I’ll create an “embedded” form mode that exposes fewer elements, for example hiding the fields for URL alias, sticky, and so on. So I would start there, but if the content creation experience still feels complex, then IEF Complex Widget Dialog might be a nice way to help