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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Structured content in Drupal

Drupal harnesses structured content as one of its foundational features. Several Drupal features rely on its structured data, such as rendering variables to specific field values in theme templates and being able to configure search behaviors for content-related fields.

Entities, types, and bundles

Drupal harnesses its Entity subsystem for the management of structured content, metadata, and data. This subsystem unifies operations around all entities for consistency. As an example, Drupal’s subsystem manages all CRUD operations for entities. Such operations properly log transactions in Drupal’s watchdog, clean up Drupal’s cache, and more. Drupal features are largely interoperable and harness several entities, and that is a critical part of Drupal’s value proposition.

Harnessing the subsystem receives the benefit of its features. Developers have access to the entity storage system, which abstracts the underlying implementation...