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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this recipe-based practical guide

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Formats : PDF, EPUB, MOBI (Downlodable)

Pages : 430

ISBN : 9781788299220

Language : English

About the Book

Book description

Over 60 hands-on recipes that get you acquainted with Drupal 8's features and help you harness its power

About This Book

  • Discover the enhanced content authoring experience that comes with Drupal 8 and how to customize it
  • Take advantage of the broadened multilingual and tools of the new version to provide an internationalized website
  • This step-by-step guide will show you how to deploy from development, staging, and production of a website with Drupal 8's brand new configuration management system

Who This Book Is For

The audience of the Drupal 8 Cookbook have been using Drupal and are ready to get a grasp of what to expect in Drupal 8. They have worked with Drupal as site builders, back-end developers, and front-end developers and are eager to see what awaits when they start using Drupal 8. This book will be a resource that allows them to get started and have a reference to building new applications with Drupal.

What You Will Learn

  • Extend Drupal through contributed or custom modules and themes
  • Develop an internationalized website with Drupal's multilingual tools
  • Integrate third-party front-end and back-end libraries with Drupal
  • Turn Drupal into a web services provider using REST
  • Create a mobile-first responsive Drupal application
  • Run SimpleTest and PHPUnit to test Drupal
  • Understand the plugin system that powers many of Drupal 8's new APIs to extend its functionality
  • Get to grips with the mechanics of the configuration management system and the ability to import and export site configuration

In Detail

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes.

We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.

Style and approach

This practical, recipe-based book will provide you with actionable techniques and methods to improve your existing Drupal development skills.

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Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing

Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals.

Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,500 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.

As part of our mission, we have also awarded over $1,000,000 through our Open Source Project Royalty scheme, helping numerous projects become household names along the way.

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