New EntityReference filter for Drupal Views

Drupal 11.1 was released yesterday, and one of the most important things in this release is the addition of a new EntityReference filter for Views.

Before this version, if you wanted to add an exposed filter to an entity reference field — in my case, as shown in the image below, it's the field_related_articles field — the filter would be a simple text input field.

Now, it can be a select box or an autocomplete field, as shown in the second image.

What I don't like is that this filter isn't used by default; instead, you need to write a hook_views_data_alter() for that. In my example, it would look like this:

/**
* Implements hook_views_data_alter().
*/
function MY_MODULE_views_data_alter(array &$data): void {
  $field_name = 'field_related_articles';
  $data['node__' . $field_name][$field_name . '_target_id']['filter']['id'] = 'entity_reference';
}

Read more in the change record.