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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

Setting up a development environment


When you are getting started with Drupal, you may not have access to a web server in order to install it.

Often it is much easier at first to work on your own computer rather than have to worry about setting up an internet-hosted server environment by setting up a local stack of Apache, MySQL, PHP, which are often referred to generically as AMP stacks and as LAMP, WAMP, or MAMP stacks on Linux, Windows, or Mac, respectively.

Full instructions for installing Drupal manually into local stack can be found at: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install but if you are not super confident at installing things like this manually, we recommend that you go for the Acquia Dev desktop method described below.