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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Defining Views

Views, as a feature, is one of the most compelling and most complex features for site builders. It is in core, which means it is out of the box with Drupal. At a high level, it is a dynamic display builder. Being able to learn and leverage its features effectively is not easy, but the results can be empowering.

Overview

Defining Views is tricky. It is important to dissect this definition significantly more.

The term display in this context has a broad definition. Drupal maintains structured content, which can be used within any display. In a traditional sense, content management systems (CMSs) store content that then gets displayed like a page on a website. Even Drupal does this with content types, nodes, and rendering nodes. However, recall earlier chapters where the problem of content duplication could be addressed by CMSs in favor of copying the same content repeatedly and pushing the burden onto content managers to do a lot of manual work. At a high level...