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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

Git basics

Git is a distributed code versioning system. A repository is what stores the code, which is revised by changes known as commits. Each repository can configure remotes, which help synchronize code between repositories by fetching code from one repository to another. Remotes communicate via HTTPS with basic authentication credentials or the SSH protocol, which can leverage SSH keys. There is significant documentation on the internet on generating SSH keys and configuring SSH in Git that changes, based on operating systems and hosted Git platforms. Repositories maintain branches that help maintain a series of commits that relate to a change. Code in a branch is often merged into a main branch, which serves as a baseline for code to be accepted into a repository.

SaaS vendors have helped make Git more ubiquitous. Vendors such as GitHub and GitLab run managed Git repositories with a UI and various complementary features. It is common for a Drupal application to manage code...