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I'm in the middle of migrating a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8 and need to write a batch in Drupal 8 to pull in a bunch of nodes from Drupal 6, so I thought I would document the process to help others.

Related api docs: https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21includes%21form.inc/group/batch/8

My module's name is disc, so be sure to replace any occurences of it with your module's name.

I've been working on my first Angular JS module, with the hopes I can share it with the community. Before doing that, I need to finish its implementation, and now that I've been playing around with Angular for a few weeks (and having a ton of prior JavaScript development experience), I could blast through this module's implementation very quickly.

Let's say we have a directory structure like so:

build/
node_modules/
src/*.js
Gruntfile.js
package.json
...

And all of our project's source code lives in the src directory:

src/hello.js
src/world.js

We'd like all of the code from these files to be compiled down and uglified into this file:

Sometimes we'll want to dynamically change the route in Angular during some custom code execution. Here's how we can do it:

$location.path('/foo');

If your call to $location takes place in an async success callback (i.e. after making a POST request to a server), you may also have to reload the route:

$route.reload();

When compiling an app to your phone over USB using the PhoneGap (Cordova) Command Line Interface (CLI), it can be handy to view the JavaScript console.log(). Run this terminal command after your app is running in debug mode:

adb logcat

That will get you lots and lots of debug information. Chances are that's too much to handle, and you'll want to filter it. Go ahead and stop logcat, and try this command instead:

adb shell logcat | grep 'Web Console'

It's possible to make the Organisation name (aka Company) field on an Address required during the Drupal Commerce checkout process. With a custom module, you can do this:

/**
 * Implements hook_form_alter().
 */
function my_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'commerce_checkout_form_checkout') {
    $form['customer_profile_billing']['commerce_customer_address']['und'][0]['organisation_block']['organisation_name']['#required'] = TRUE;
  }
}

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Even after many years of using the Address Field moule, I still forget what the component names mean in English from time to time. So here's a list to help me (and you) remember (some of them are super obvious, so I'll leave them blank, others I'll leave up to your interpretation and let you figure it out for fun):