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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

The Search API Solr module


Prior to Drupal 8, Drupal used a module that was independent of Search API to integrate with Apache Solr. This module was called Apache Solr Search. However, it was decided that the Search API would become the module on which to base all search integrations for Drupal 8. A main contributor to both the Search API project and the earlier Apache Solr Search module for Drupal 7 is Nick Veenhof (also known as "Nick_vh" on Drupal.org). He explained the rationale behind making the Search API module a requirement of the new Search API Solr module:

"Drupal 8 has also helped in forcing us to rethink certain concepts and also live up to our promise to avoid the divide we had in Drupal 7 between the Apache Solr Module and Search API. Search API will be the sole provider of Apache Solr integration in Drupal 8. Search API in Drupal 8 ships with sane defaults (which you can enable or disable) that pre-configures the module so it can be used instantly."