What this book covers
Chapter 1, What is Drupal?, introducing content management fundamentals, basic Drupal concepts, and case studies.
Chapter 2, Drupal Core, Modules, and Themes, introduces the three major components of a Drupal application, their purpose, and project examples.
Chapter 3, Infrastructure and Overview of Technical Architecture, covers Drupal’s hosting requirements, backend architecture, front-end architecture, and “trifecta” of code, database, and files.
Chapter 4, Drupal Community, describes how to engage with the Drupal community and why it is important to do so.
Chapter 5, What’s New in Drupal 10, defines important new features and changes in Drupal 10 from earlier versions.
Chapter 6, Bootstrapping, Installing, and Configuring a New Drupal Project, walks through the experience of starting a new Drupal application from nothing.
Chapter 7, Maintaining Drupal, outlines the specific maintenance footprint for Drupal and its technical stack, including recommendations for best practices in maintenance.
Chapter 8, Content Structures and Multilingual, describes how people create models for content and how content stored in those models can support versions across multiple languages.
Chapter 9, Users, Roles, and Permissions, covers configuration capabilities that allow different users to perform different actions within the same Drupal application.
Chapter 10, Drupal Views and Display Modes, outlines how to create content displays and display configuration for standard content rendering and for different display formats like listings, feeds, and more.
Chapter 11, Files, Images, and Media, outlines digital asset features in Drupal that work with its underlying structured content and across other Drupal features.
Chapter 12, Search, gives an introduction on enabling and configuring search capabilities in Drupal with commentary on more advanced use cases.
Chapter 13, Contact Forms, provides an overview of user engagement through public forms including optional features like spam prevention and more advanced form building capabilities.
Chapter 14, Basic Content Authoring Experience, helps demonstrate various configuration options and their impact on the experience offered to content authors.
Chapter 15, Visual Content Management, introduces Drupal’s block system and a visual layout capability known as Layout Builder for placing blocks within configured layouts.
Chapter 16, Content Workflows, gives an overview on moderated content configuration options that allow various user roles to be configured to create, review, and approve content before it gets published.
Chapter 17, Git, Drush, Composer, and DevOps, helps define underlying tooling, practices, and use cases that impact code development, deployment workflows, and maintenance.
Chapter 18, Module Development, provides concepts, patterns, and various code samples aimed at understanding how to customize Drupal’s functionality through the backend framework.
Chapter 19, Theme Development, is an overview on everything theme-related in Drupal covering practices, examples, and concepts that span libraries, templates, CSS, JavaScript, and Drupal-related conventions.
Chapter 20, Delivering Drupal Content through APIs, introduces features for web services and interoperability with other systems interested in retrieving Drupal content or performing actions within Drupal.
Chapter 21, Migrating Content into Drupal, introduces tooling and a framework that maps content sources, transformations, and content destinations to move content into Drupal.
Chapter 22, Multisite Management, outlines how to run multiple Drupal applications from the same codebase, including the benefits and drawbacks of this capability.
Appendix A serves as a quick reference to help review terminology or "Drupal-isms