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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 an API to get all the recipes under a recipe type


Now we will create our next API, which is for exposing all the recipes under a recipe type:

  1. We will have a new view created in the same manner, but instead of selecting Taxonomy terms, we will be choosing contents of all type recipes.

  2. In the REST export settings, give the URL as api/recipes/%. The % sign acts as the wildcard, which will recipe type tid as the argument.

  3. In the views settings page, we configure the view just like we did it for the recipe type. The fields that we will be showing are:

    • Node ID

    • Title

    • Publishing status

    • Recipe Type

    • Recipe Image

    • PrepTime

    • CookTime

    • TotalTime

    • Body

    • Ingredients

    • Instructions

    • Yield

    • Review

  4. To get the recipes associated with a particular recipe, we will use the fields Recipe Type in the recipe content, which is referenced to the Recipe Type vocabulary.

  5. In the advanced section of the views configuration page, under CONTEXTUAL FILTERS, click on Add to add in the Recipe Type tid as an argument:

  6. In the...