Mastering Drupal 8

Mastering Drupal can lead to a mighty website – discover what Drupal 8 can really do with hidden techniques, best practices, and more!

About This Book

• The most up-to-date advanced practical guide on Drupal 8 with an in-depth look at all the advanced new features such as authoring, HTML markup, built-in web services, and more
• If you are looking to dive deep into Drupal 8 and create industry-standard web apps, then this is the ideal book for you
• All the code and examples are explained in great detail to help you in the development process

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideally suited to web developers, designers, and web administrators who want to dive deep into Drupal. Previous experience with Drupal is a must to unleash the full potential of this book.

What You Will Learn

• Discover how to better manage content using custom blocks and views
• Display content in multiple ways, taking advantage of display modes
• Create custom modules with YAML and Symfony 2
• Easily translate content using the new multilingual capabilities
• Use RESTful services and JavaScript frameworks to build headless websites
• Manage Drupal configuration from one server to another easily

In Detail

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience.

Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected.

This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.

Style and approach

This book takes a practical approach with equal emphasis on examples and illustrative screenshots.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Developer Workflow
Chapter 2. Site Configuration
Chapter 3. Managing Users, Roles, And Permissions
Chapter 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, And Comment Types
Chapter 5. Working With Blocks
Chapter 6. Content Authoring, Html5, And Media
Chapter 7. Understanding Views
Chapter 8. Theming Essentials
Chapter 9. Working With Twig
Chapter 10. Extending Drupal
Chapter 11. Working With Forms And The Form Api
Chapter 12. Restful Services
Chapter 13. Multilingual Capabilities
Chapter 14. Configuration Management
Chapter 15. Site Migration
Chapter 16. Debugging And Profiling