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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

Assets in Drupal

Assets are a specific type of digital content. Consider reading about a researcher online. When viewing their biography on a University website, an image shows a picture of them, a list of their publications, which are linked to PDF files, and a video of their latest conference talk is featured. These are all assets.

Assets are a vibrant part of the modern web. Social platforms such as Instagram and YouTube are built around images and videos. The emergence of cameras and cell phones has made digital assets ubiquitous. As such, assets are a large part of digital applications. And, assets are a significant part of Drupal.

Use cases

Assets are one part of the longstanding “trifecta” of Drupal: code, database, and files. Files take on two forms: assets and generated files. Configuration, as an example, is generated by the Drupal application, managed by the runtime database, and persistently stored in files for versioning. Drupal’s caching...