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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

Overview of Drupal projects

Drupal core leverages projects as the construct for its modularity. Projects are built with code and harness Drupal core’s framework to customize Drupal. Community members have contributed their projects on drupal.org. Projects created for the specific needs of a Drupal application are known as custom. Custom projects are intended to add specific business logic that may be unique to an organization, integrate internal enterprise systems, or add specific company branding.

Important note

Before creating custom projects, evaluate the contributed projects on drupal.org. Given the maturity of the Drupal project and the vast number of contributions, it is common to find a contributed project that can help address the desired use case. This all assumes the feature is not provided by the core itself.

Projects are managed by Drupal core for the application. Core can install, enable, and disable projects. Each version of the project is managed so that...