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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

Composer basics

Composer is a command-line tool for managing code in PHP-based applications such as Drupal. PHP has a vast ecosystem of components, libraries, and so on, including the catalog of Drupal projects and various Symfony components used by Drupal. Like a package manager, Composer helps assemble and update the PHP-based parts of an application.

Composer starts with a project. Not to be confused with a Drupal project, a Composer project is the high-level scaffolding for an application. Drupal applications are initialized as a Composer project. Composer projects have installed packages, and each package has its own dependencies – all of which can be managed by Composer through Composer projects.

Once a Composer project is initialized, Composer has a few key constructs. A composer.json file manages a developer-friendly list of projects, versions, and constraints for the Drupal application. A constraint in Composer is a set of directives defined per project to help...