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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Alex Burrows
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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By: Alex Burrows

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction and Getting Set Up
3
Get Fundraising with Drupal
5
List Properties with Drupal
6
Express Your Event with Drupal
7
Get Teaching with Drupal

Summary


Congratulations! You have just made Drupal generate data into JSON format that allows third-party systems to retrieve this data, and in our case, display the data in our frontend made in React.

Now, you can amend this to allow additional fields and amend how the styling of the page is, but this would require a more in-depth look at React.

As data is added to our feed, our output in our frontend will change and there will be nothing that is required to update our rendered content.

There are many alternatives to using React and this can either be achieved using jQuery library or there is a fantastic Drupal distribution called Contenta CMS(http://www.contentacms.org). I really recommend this as a great simple solution to.

There's more in core

Just as we wrap up this book, we know Drupal has REST API built into core, but what if we want to retrieve data?

Well, in Drupal, there are ways that we can do this the other way around, where by Drupal is reveiving data from an endpoint.

This again is...