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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on. You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

JavaScript and the Ajax API

In this chapter, we’ll switch gears and talk a bit about frontend development, namely, how to work with JavaScript in a Drupal application. This is because there are many things developers can and should be doing in their modules that require frontend technologies. There are a few approaches and techniques specific to Drupal when it comes to adding and using JavaScript files, and we will talk about those here. Moreover, we will also prove how powerful Drupal is in allowing us to do quite a bit of JavaScript work without actually writing a single line of JavaScript code.

So, there are a few things we will cover in this chapter.

First, we will talk about the approach of writing JavaScript in Drupal. You already learned in Chapter 4, Theming, how you can create libraries and attach them to render arrays, elements, or pages. Basically, using libraries, we can get our JavaScript files loaded when we need. I recommend you check out the Assets and...