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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

Drupal core

Drupal core is the foundation of every Drupal application. It represents all out-of-the-box Drupal features and contains the framework every Drupal application is built on. It has the most rigorous contribution process while having the largest amount of contribution activity.

While Drupal itself, as an open source project, is free, it should be viewed more through the perspective of “free like a puppy.” Drupal code is freely available, and there is a vast community helping to maintain and support it. However, Drupal applications require ongoing maintenance. Major and minor upgrades need to be performed to update the code. The underlying servers and platform need to be maintained as core evolves its platform dependencies. The community helps promote efforts to more seamlessly and automatically perform code updates, but adopters are still largely responsible for running their own platforms or picking a commercial PaaS offering. This takes ongoing work and...