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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 – installing and configuring Solr on Ubuntu


First, we'll install some required packages and then we'll manually install the latest version of Solr from the Apache Solr site:

  1. Install required packages. First, use apt-get to ensure you have the python-software-properties package available. This will allow you to add a new package repository:

    $ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
    

    Now, add the unofficial Java installer repository:

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
    

    Confirm that you want to add this repository when prompted and then update the list of source packages:

    $ sudo apt-get update
    

    We can now install the Oracle Java JDK Version 8:

    $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
    

    This is an Oracle package and you will have to agree to the license terms in order to proceed. Just press Enter when prompted.

  2. Run the Apache Solr installer. Now that we have the Java JDK installed, we can install the latest version of Apache Solr. Go to the list of mirrors available...