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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 – developing a custom module in Drupal 8


Here we are going to create a custom module which will print Hello World in a page under the path: mypage/page. Follow the basics steps involved in the custom module development in Drupal 8. Before that, we will discuss the Drupal root directory structure.

Look at the preceding screenshot. We will see what each directory contains:

  • /core: All the files provided by core that don't have an explicit reason to be in the / directory.

  • /modules: The directory into which all the custom and contrib modules go. Splitting this up into the sub-directories contrib and custom can make it easier to keep track of the modules.

  • /profiles: This folder contains contributed and custom profiles.

  • /themes: - contributed and custom (sub)themes.

  • /sites/[domain OR default]/{modules,themes}: Site specific modules and themes can be moved into these directories to avoid them showing up on every site.

  • sites/[domain OR default]/files: Site specific files tend to go here...