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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

Summary

In this chapter, we took on the client side and talked about JavaScript and client-side capabilities in Drupal. We started with the approach we need to take when writing JavaScript in a Drupal context. We learned about behaviors, why they are important, and how to use them. We also saw how we can pass around data from the server (Drupal) to the client side and make use of it in JavaScript.

Funnily enough, we then switched to a no-JavaScript-allowed policy for the rest of the chapter. We did this to prove how powerful the Drupal Ajax API is, with which we can perform complex server-to-client interactions even if we are not frontend developers that can write JavaScript code. And to demonstrate the API, we first looked at how simple links can be turned into Ajax requests. We followed that up with an important refactor of our earlier product importer functionality, which relied on Ajax to make the Importer configuration entity form dynamic (dependent on the selected plugin)...