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Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel
Book Image

Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most popular platforms with which to develop websites. With more and more organizations looking to build engaging digital experience for their stakeholders, the Drupal Content Management System offers a mobile-first platform with native support for integrations, better performance, and scalability. The new version brings significant changes to its module development and theme creation techniques, improving performance and refining the development experience.</p> <p>This book will help you develop your own website using Drupal 8 in a step-by-step manner. You’ll start off by setting up your development environment, enabling you to begin writing custom code for a Drupal-powered website through PHPStorm. You will learn about configuration management and creating custom content types before exploring the HTML5 features included with Drupal 8.</p> <p>You will then get familiar with Drupal 8’s mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG and in-line editing capabilities of Drupal 8, and enhance the overall authoring experience. Later, you will create and enhance a Media Entity Lightbox module, before taking an in-depth look at the Views module.</p> <p>We then cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. Finally, you will explore and configure the built-in support for REST and extend its support by installing the RESTful module. By the end of the book, you will have created a recipe sharing website while gaining a solid understanding of development best practices for Drupal 8.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a new image style for images in our rotating recipe banner


In the last chapter, we learned how to add image styles for Drupal 8. Let's add a new image style named front_banner that will scale our recipe images to be no wider than 680 pixels and cropped to 410 pixels in height. We will apply the same to the image field of our Front Banner view. This will create a more consistent look for our rotating banner as it will not change the size from slide to slide:

  1. Open the d8dev site in your browser, click on the Configuration link in the Admin toolbar, and then click on Image styles under the Media link.

  2. We are creating a new Image style. So, click on the +Add Image styles link at the top of the Image styles page.

  3. Enter Front banner as the image style name and click on the Create new style button.

  4. Select Crop as the effect and click on the Add button at the bottom of the page:

  5. Next, Enter 680 as Width and 410 as Height, and click on the Add effect button:

  6. Now we have to update...