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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

4.7 (3)
By: Matt Glaman

Overview of this book

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes. We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Creating a module


The first step to extend Drupal is to create a custom module. Although the task sounds daunting, it can be accomplished in a few simple steps. Modules can provide functionalities and customizations to functionalities provided by other modules, or they can be used as a way to contain the configuration and a site's state.

In this recipe, we will create a module by defining an info.yml file, a file containing information that Drupal uses to discover extensions, and enabling the module.

How to do it...

  1. Create a folder named mymodule in the modules folder in the base directory of your Drupal site. This will be your module's directory.
  2. Create a mymodule.info.yml file in your module's directory. This contains metadata that identifies the module to Drupal.
  3. Add a line to the name key to provide a name for the module:
name: My Module! 
  1. We will need to provide the type key to define the type of extension. We provide the module value:
type: module 
  1. The description key allows you to provide...
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