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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)

Creating a custom Drush command

Throughout this book, we have used Drush to perform operations on a Drupal site from the command line. Custom commands for Drush can be provided by modules. This allows developers to create commands that help them manage their Drupal sites. Drush requires modules to provide a composer.json file that instructs them where to load a services file that will register Drush commands.

In this recipe, we will create a new Drush command for a custom module that prints the location of where Drupal is installed.

How to do it…

  1. Drush provides a command to generate the required files for creating a command file for custom commands. To begin, run the following command:
    php vendor/bin/drush generate drush-command-file
  2. You will be prompted to provide a value for the Module machine name; type mymodule for the name of our module.
  3. Next, press Enter to skip converting a legacy Drush command file.
  4. The command output will display the files that...