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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

Drush basics

Drush is a command-line tool that runs operations on a Drupal site. Because Drupal has a backend administrative area, users with the appropriate permissions can log in and operate a Drupal application. However, there are times when an application is unavailable, such as when it has pending database updates or requires a cache clear. Also, developers want to be able to run commands remotely and in scripts during events such as code deployments, without having to subsequently log in through the web application.

Operations is an overloaded term in technology, but with Drush, operations are focused on actions that run on the Drupal application – things such as logging in as a user, clearing the cache, or updating configuration from code to the application. Drush does not manage code in Drupal.

Like Git, Drush can leverage SSH to manage remotes. This feature is known as site aliases in Drush. Site aliases are helpful for developers who work on multiple Drupal applications...