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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

Listing content


Views does one thing, and it does it well--listing content. The power behind the Views module is the amount of configurable power it gives the end user to display content in various forms.

This recipe will cover creating a content listing and linking it in the main menu. We will use the Article content type provided by the standard installation and make an article's landing page.

Getting ready

The Views UI module must be installed to manipulate Views from the user interface. By default, this is enabled with the standard installation profile.

How to do it...

Let's list the Views listing content:

  1. Go to Structure and then Views, as shown in the following screenshot; this will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views that have been created:
  1. Click on Add view to create a new view.
  2. The first step is to provide the View name of articles, which will serve as the administrative and (by default) displayed title.
  3. Next, we will modify the VIEW SETTINGS. We want to display Content...