Dedicated Drupal developers and QA engineers for Hubert Burda Media

The process

Lemberg Solutions met Hubert Burda Media during Drupal Mountain Camp 2019 in Switzerland, and the next year, we provided them with a dedicated team. Our client requested front-end optimization of the DasHaus and Mein schöner Garten websites built on React and Drupal. They planned to integrate the AMP technology to improve their SEO ranking.

At the early stage of the project, our client held sprint-planning meetings. They applied a task-evaluation system where each developer estimated the complexity of work. Additionally, they described test cases in tasks for engineers to get a better picture of the project. Currently, Burda arranges weekly meetings to assign tasks and collect feedback about the workflow.

Burda offered to employ Next.js for the front-end part and asked us to develop schemes for the GraphQL module. First, we connected Drupal and Next.js, and then we began fetching data from the back-end part of the website pages. Next, we moved to code refactoring, where Drupal provided a GraphQL endpoint and Apollo Client was used to fetch the data from Drupal.

When Burda configured the server, our engineers set up the front-end environment from scratch. Employing Vagrant, we developed several environments to launch the website. At first, we started a database for separate servers, but later our client reduced their number to one.

The LS team also fixed errors that occurred during data migration from Drupal, since the client intended to create a duplicate website where information would be displayed via Next.js. We are currently engaged in quality management of the website system, and our engineers are also involved in cross-browser testing for desktop & mobile, functional testing, and regression testing.

We are happy to cooperate with Burda’s team and hope to contribute even more to their website development.