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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 comes with a release cycle that allows for new functionality to be added at a much faster pace. However, this also means code deprecations and changing architecture that you need to stay on top of. This book updates the first edition and includes the new functionality introduced in versions up to, and including 8.7. The book will first introduce you to the Drupal 8 architecture and its subsystems before diving into creating your first module with basic functionality. You will work with the Drupal logging and mailing systems, learn how to output data using the theme layer and work with menus and links programmatically. Then, you will learn how to work with different kinds of data storages, create custom entities, field types and leverage the Database API for lower level database queries. You will further see how to introduce JavaScript into your module, work with the various file systems and ensure the code you write works on multilingual sites. Finally, you will learn how to programmatically work with Views, write automated tests for your functionality and also write secure code in general. By the end, you will have learned how to develop your own custom module that can provide complex business solutions. And who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute it back to the Drupal community. Foreword by Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we got to implement some fun stuff. We created our very own content and configuration entity types as well as a custom plugin type to handle our logic.

What we built was a Product entity type that holds some product-like data in various types of fields. We even created a bundle configuration entity type so that we can have multiple types of products with the possibility of different fields per bundle—a great data model.

We wanted to be able to import products from all sorts of external resources. For this reason, we created the Importer plugin type which is responsible for doing the actual imports—a great functional model. However, these only work based on a set of configurations, which we represented via a configuration entity type. These can then be created in the UI and exported into YAML files like any other configuration.

Finally, to...