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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

Establishing a new codebase

The first step of creating a new Drupal application is creating the codebase. And, Drupal leverages Composer to manage its code, including provisioning a new codebase.

What is Composer?

Composer is a command-line tool used to manage code in a Drupal application. Composer is not just for Drupal. Drupal adopted Composer because it is used to manage code across many PHP-based projects. This is especially helpful to manage Drupal dependencies, like Symfony projects. And, it works natively with projects hosted on Drupal.org and thus can readily manage core and community projects.

Composer requires two primary constructs to function, a “composer.json” file and a “composer.lock” file. Applications are composed of various projects and those projects are, typically, managed by Git. A built application is basically a series of projects cloned at a specific commit. The project and commit-level metadata is stored in the composer...