Back in 2012 Dries wrote a blog post declaring that the future was a "RESTful Drupal." In all previous versions of Drupal there were competing methods of implementing REST APIs in Drupal: services, RESTWS and RESTful were the more popular ones in contrib. This lead to other modules having to target one implementation or another in order to work. You could end up finding the functionality you wanted to leverage already built, but using a different set of APIs than you had already implemented. The goal of the Drupal 8's Web Services Initiative was to consolidate the basic REST functionality and allow Drupal to serve as the content repository for any number of clients, and not just the Drupal interface. This allows Drupal to expose content and functionality to anything from mobile applications, other CMS and platforms, and single-page applications...
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Mastering Drupal 8
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Mastering Drupal 8
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Overview of this book
Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience.
Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected.
This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Developer Workflow
Site Configuration
Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types
Working with Blocks
Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media
Understanding Views
Theming Essentials
Working with Twig
Extending Drupal
Working with Forms and the Form API
RESTful Services
Multilingual Capabilities
Configuration Management
Site Migration
Debugging and Profiling
Customer Reviews
