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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)

Managing your Drupal code with version control

Now that we have a Drupal code base, it is time to put that code into version control with Git. We will also export our Drupal site’s configuration to YAML files that allow us to track the site configuration in version control.

Tracking your code in version control makes it easier to collaborate with other developers, track changes, and integrate with continuous integration and deployment tools. It is highly recommended, even if you are the only developer working on the project.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have Git on your machine. If you do not already have Git, see the following resources:

How to do it…

  1. Open a terminal and navigate to your Drupal code base.
  2. Initialize a new Git repository with the init command:
    git init

You will...