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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

Web service APIs in Drupal

Drupal, which commonly maintains structured content and has features other systems may need, can play an important role in both calling and providing web services.

Drupal commonly refers to its backend and frontend. Out of the box, it offers both. But Drupal’s frontend can be replaced, often through the use of Drupal’s backend APIs. This approach is known as decoupled or headless Drupal. The frontend is not assumed. It could be an app on a mobile phone, an Internet of Things device, or even another web application.

A lot of recent focus has has harnessed web service features in Drupal to pull content for modern JavaScript frontend applications. Frameworks such as ReactJS and Vue.js can interface with any third-party web service and create performant, innovative web frontends. Drupal’s technology stack, given that it spans systems, backend, and frontend, often drives specific types of experts, such as a backend or frontend engineer...