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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

Drupal themes

The second type of project is a theme.

What is a theme?

Drupal themes are front-end development projects that leverage the core’s visual system to control the look and feel of the Drupal application. A theme can be the visual presentation of content for end users. It can also be the theme used for the administrative experience of the Drupal application, known as an admin theme.

Themes control the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript used for the Drupal application. HTML is created through the use of templates. Based on the enabled features, content-related features define expected templates that map variables provided by the backend to the corresponding HTML. Templates leverage the Twig framework for functionality and syntax. A theme registers the templates, CSS, and JavaScript, which can then be subsequently enabled in Drupal.

Core themes

The most well-known themes are provided by Core. Core themes provide useful examples for integrating with all core-related...