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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need to have a basic understanding of web applications, general web technologies, and request/response models through a browser.

Software/Hardware covered in the book

OS Requirements

PHP

Windows, macOS, and Linux (Any)

JavaScript

Windows, macOS, and Linux (Any)

CSS

Windows, macOS, and Linux (Any)

HTML

Windows, macOS, and Linux (Any)

Server administration

Linux

Local tools, like DDEV (https://ddev.com/), help run a containerized application that hosts Drupal. There are active discussions on DDEV becoming the community standard. Such a tool provides a well documented experience and commands to run Drupal applications. Given this book has several hands-on examples, a local container-based tool brings automation and the ability to destroy and rebuild a Drupal application rapidly. DDEV is also supported across several operating systems.

This book tries to not be too opinionated. The Drupal community, like any community, often has more than one way to solve a problem and it has passionate, smart people that may not always agree. Efforts were made while writing this book to remain objective while trying to give readers as much context on topics as possible. It will be important to get informed on the basics from this book, form your own opinions, and be opportunistic in learning.