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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 architecture

Drupal’s architecture is both broad and deep; there are many technical aspects of Drupal, and each typically requires some level of specialized knowledge to understand. It starts with the infrastructure that runs the Drupal application, which has a specific stack and knowledge of system administration. The application itself has three main architectural components, which are detailed shortly. The most complex is code. Backend development and frontend development leverage different programming languages and best practices. This section will not provide a deep dive into any specific subject matter, but rather an overview of high-level knowledge for all of Drupal.

Infrastructure technical stack

Drupal spans many layers of a technical stack, as shown by its platform requirements. Drupal is an application that is commonly associated with the LAMP stack. At the lowest level, Drupal dependencies run on operating systems. Given the free and open-source nature...