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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)

Successfully deploying your Drupal site

So far, we have created a Drupal code base, set up a local development environment, and put our code base into version control. Now, it is time to cover deploying your Drupal site to a server.

Deploying your Drupal site involves more than just copying over the code files as you may need to run schema updates and configuration imports. In this recipe, we will use rsync, an efficient file transfer tool, to copy our Drupal site code base to a server and use Drush to create a successful Drupal deployment.

Getting ready

This recipe requires access to a virtual machine over SSH that has a Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack installed. Many cloud providers, such as Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail, have one-click installations for LAMP stack virtual machines:

  • A virtual machine with 1 GB of memory and one CPU will suffice, usually the lowest virtual machine tier.
  • You must be able to access the virtual machine using SSH key...