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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

Out-of-the-box Drupal Building

Drupal gained popularity as a low/no-code tool given its backend could readily be configured to meet a large number of common cases. A third persona of Drupal developer, beyond a backend or frontend developer, is known as a site builder. The site building activity is the combination of Drupal configuration and selection of community-provided modules to achieve the goals of an application. Modules often come with their own configuration as well. This is not an exercise of developing code but assembling existing capabilities that have been built by the community culminating in the desired intent of the Drupal application.

Developer Classification

Drupal system concepts of front-end and backend have corresponding development practices. Front-end development is considered working on Drupal themes (CSS, Twig templates, lightweight PHP) or building JavaScript-based integrations. Backend development typically refers to PHP and harnessing Drupal’...