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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Using the Drush command-line tool

Drush is a command-line tool that interacts with Drupal to perform actions such as installing Drupal or performing various maintenance tasks. In this recipe, we will add Drush to our Drupal site and use it to install the Drupal site.

Warning

This example uses commands that will cause data loss if you have an existing installed site.

Getting ready

When using DDEV, you must SSH into the web application container using ddev ssh to interact with Drush.

How to do it…

  1. Open a terminal and navigate to your Drupal code base.
  2. Add Drush via Composer using the require command:
    composer require drush/drush
  3. Execute the site:install command to install Drupal:
    php vendor/bin/drush site:install --account-pass=admin
  4. Once the installation has finished, use the user:login command to generate a one-time login link to access the Drupal site. Your browser should automatically open if you do not click the returned link:
    php vendor/bin...