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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
Book Image

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

Drupal accessibility tips

While Drupal core’s accessibility is top-notch, custom themes rely on a frontend developer to ensure proper web accessibility. While most accessibility techniques are out of scope for this book, Drupal does contain several techniques to help save you time.

The visually hidden CSS class

The visually-hidden CSS class will hide an element visually, but it will still be apparent to the accessibility tree so that screen readers and other assistive technologies can access it.

Drupal announce JS API

The Drupal.announce() JS function is a way to easily add text to an ARIA live region so that screen reader users will be aware of the text that is passed in:

Drupal.announce('The application has been updated.');

Using buttons as menu items

While more content than theming, be aware that menu items can take <button>, which will generate a <button> HTML element. This is useful to show/toggle child menu items. Note that you...