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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Matt Glaman

Overview of this book

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes. We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


In the previous chapters of this book, there have been recipes that provide ways of using command-line tools to simplify working with Drupal. There are two contributed projects that provide Drupal with a command-line interface experience.

First, there is Drush. Drush was first created for Drupal 4.7 and has become an integral tool used for day-to-day Drupal operations. However, with Drupal 8 and its integration with Symfony, there came Drupal Console. Drupal Console is a Symfony Console-based application that allows it to reuse more components and integrate more easily with contributed modules.

This chapter contains recipes that will highlight operations that can be simplified using Drush or Console. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to work with your Drupal sites through the command line.

Note

At the time of writing this book, Drush was still the primary tool of choice for Drupal 8; however, Drupal Console is earning more market share. Drupal Console is rapidly being...