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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

Drupal.org


The central location of the Drupal project is the main website, that is, Drupal.org. Every Drupal module has its own project page, run by the module maintainer. Each module page explains the purpose of the project and contains links to further documentation.

The following screenshot is from the popular Rules module:

On the right-hand side bar, you can find the following:

  • Maintainer: This is the developer who is responsible for the code and documentation of this module.

  • Co-maintainers: There are some larger and more complex modules that have multiple maintainers who have permission to update the code.

  • Links to commits: As all of Drupal is open source, you can see the history of all the files that make up the project. Every change to every file is visible in a commit log, so you can see what was changed and why.

  • Links to issue queues: This consists of every support question or bug that has been raised for this module.

  • Links to documentation

  • Change records: When a change to a module...