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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating a Drupal site

Create a new Drupal site using the Composer project template and run the Quick Start command to create a preview site. The instructions provided in this section are based on the recommended installation instructions at https://www.drupal.org/download.

Getting ready

The Quick Start command uses SQLite as the database for Drupal. With most operating system PHP installations, this is readily available and installed. If SQLite is not available, the installation script will error. If this happens, that is okay! In Running your Drupal site locally, we will run Drupal using a local development environment with a database.

Drupal also requires several PHP extensions. These are typically available with most PHP distributions. The up-to-date list of required PHP extensions can be found online: https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements#extensions.

How to do it...

  1. Open a terminal and navigate where you would like to create your...