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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

Release methodology

Drupal 10’s initiatives and requirements were defined before Drupal 10 was launched. This was based on several factors.

Drupal 10 has a defined life cycle with roughly 6 months of minor releases. There is no explicit number of minor releases before a major release is announced. However, major releases, starting with Drupal 8, have been on an approximate 2-to-3-year cadence. After this cadence, a new major version is released and the previous major version reaches its end of life. The only exception is Drupal 7, which has extended end-of-life support. Details can be found on drupal.org by searching for Core Release Cycles.

Drupal applications inherit life cycle considerations of Drupal’s dependencies. Infrastructure, such as PHP and MySQL, have explicit supported versions at the time a major version is supported. As an example, Drupal would not explicitly support an end-of-life version of PHP. Application-level dependencies, such as Symfony components...