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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

Concepts

Drupal offers a robust development framework in core that allows for the creation of modules. All types of modules leverage the same framework. A module can be found in core, be contributed to drupal.org, or be a custom module that exists only for a specific use case found in a Drupal application. Use of the framework promotes consistency and helps readily learn across modules.

Modules are set up as projects. Drupal core offers the ability to manage projects per application. This handles the installation, enabling, and disabling of projects. Some projects are intended for specific use cases only, such as debugging on a local system or performing testing on a non-production environment. This allows the same module to exist in a code base but to be managed within a specific application or environment of that application.

As a reminder from earlier chapters, module development should observe the 80/20 rule. Developing Drupal applications starts with site building. Normally...