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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Using Drush


One of the indispensible tools for developing in Drupal is Drush. It allows you to interact with modules, users, configuration, caches, and more through the command line, faster than going through the user interface in a web browser. In order to use Drush with Drupal 8, you need to be running the latest stable version of Drush, Drush 8. There are several new features in Drush 8 that make development easier.

The largest is the inclusion of the PsySH REPL to do quick experiments using a bootstrapped version instance of Drupal. Running drush php will open up a command shell where you can directly interact with the Drupal API.

Using Composer

Composer is a tool for managing dependencies in PHP. Drupal 8 is based on Symfony and other open source projects. When you download Drupal for the first time, the files for those other projects are not present. They are referenced in the composer.json file and will be downloaded when you run composer install from the project root. In addition to...