In this chapter, we learned more about the Views module and saw how a good Views plugin, along with some custom CSS, enabled us to create a very appealing rotating banner component for our d8dev site.
We also learned a bit about the Drupal README.txt
file and how a module is promoted from a sandbox project to a full project.
Finally, we learned about the Features module for exporting the Recipe content type and its fields, blocks, and views as modules to use them in other environments. We also compared the Configuration Management system with the features module by focusing on a comparative study and when to use either of the two modules.
In the next chapter, we will cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and Drupal integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. We will then enhance our site with a customized faceted search built on top of the Search API module.