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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

Images

Images represent a specific type of file and more specific functionality. Images build those specific features by leveraging files for all of the foundational asset-related functionality, such as CRUD. It also adds image-specific metadata, such as fields for alternate text, which is helpful for accessibility. Drupal may have content that links to a PDF or Word document that was created outside of Drupal. However, web browsers have native support for images of various formats. Given that Drupal serves content for the web, it offers more advanced image-related features beyond simple file linking, which is useful for rendering images and transforming images as part of its content management capabilities.

The responsive web adds more demands on content management systems to ensure images are appropriately delivered to different devices. Some images can be rather large in file size. Imagine the earlier days of cellular networks trying to download a large image on a web page. Content...