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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

4.5 (17)
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.
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Creating a module

The first step to extending 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 for 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 its modulename.info.yml file, a file containing information that Drupal uses to discover extensions and install the module.

How to do it…

  1. In your web/modules directory, create a new directory called custom and then another directory named mymodule inside it. This will be your module’s directory. Using the command line, you may create the directory with the following command:
    mkdir -p web/modules/custom/mymodule

This will create the required directories.

  1. Create a mymodule.info.yml file in your module’s directory. This will contain the metadata...

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