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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

Using web services

Any system that is capable of making an HTTP request can use web services. Covering those topics would be outside of the scope of this book given many different languages, platforms, tools, and capabilities have some support for web services. This section outlines how to invoke endpoints in Drupal using the aforementioned features.

Basic JSON:API examples

A catalog of available JSON:API requests can be generated from /jsonapi. The following figure shows part of a sample response:

Figure 20.5 - JSON:API catalog response

Figure 20.5 - JSON:API catalog response

This response provides a machine-readable response with a series of links to get to the configured resources. Each of the links provides more detail based on the resource. For instance, clicking on the link for block--block provides a catalog of blocks (metadata and block placement), as shown in the following figure:

Figure 20.6 - JSON:API block catalog response

Figure 20.6 - JSON:API block catalog response

Getting to the structured...