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title: >
    Write less Drupal code
pubDate: 2023-06-08
permalink: >-
    archive/2023/06/08/write-less-drupal-code
tags:
    - drupal
    - php
---

An approach I like to make my Drupal code more maintainable is to write less of it and move any generic PHP code into separate framework-agnostic libraries.

These could be in open-sourced packages installed from Packagist or kept within the same repository.

Having less Drupal-specific code keeps modules smaller and easier to maintain and upgrade.

If I need to upgrade a module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, I can reuse the generic code and focus on changing its integration points with Drupal to make it compatible.