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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What is open source?


The dictionary definition of open source is:

 

denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

 
 --New Oxford American Dictionary

While there are no license fees associated with Drupal, the most important part is the fact that you are free to modify and extend the code base to meet your own needs.

Open source means that you can also see the full history of the code—you can see when changes were made, for what reason, and by whom. There is no "black box" technology—everything is open for you to investigate if you desire to.