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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing a module


Each module has its own project page on drupal.org.

At the bottom of the page will be a list of available versions of the module:

Note that many modules will have supported versions for previous releases of Drupal—you can only use modules with an 8.x version.

Ideally, you will want to use a recommended version of a Drupal 8 release. However, at the time of writing, many modules are still in the development stage, which means they are not recommended for production sites.

Now, we will continue with our example site and try out some different methods of installing new modules, in particular to improve one of the listings—the FAQs.