Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Neeraj Kumar et al.



Develop your programming skills by creating engaging websites using Drupal 8

Drupal is one of the most popular platforms with which to develop websites. With more and more organizations looking to build engaging digital experience for their stakeholders, the Drupal Content Management System offers a mobile-first platform with native support for integrations, better performance, and scalability. The new version brings significant changes to its module development and theme creation techniques, improving performance and refining the development experience.

This book will help you develop your own website using Drupal 8 in a step-by-step manner. You’ll start off by setting up your development environment, enabling you to begin writing custom code for a Drupal-powered website through PHPStorm. You will learn about configuration management and creating custom content types before exploring the HTML5 features included with Drupal 8.

You will then get familiar with Drupal 8’s mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG and in-line editing capabilities of Drupal 8, and enhance the overall authoring experience. Later, you will create and enhance a Media Entity Lightbox module, before taking an in-depth look at the Views module.

We then cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. Finally, you will explore and configure the built-in support for REST and extend its support by installing the RESTful module. By the end of the book, you will have created a recipe sharing website while gaining a solid understanding of development best practices for Drupal 8.

Table of Contents

1: SETTING UP A DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
2: CUSTOM MODULE DEVELOPMENT
3: DRUPAL VIEWS AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
4: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD TYPES API AND DEVELOPING THE CUSTOM FIELD MODULE
5: THEMING IN DRUPAL 8
6: ENHANCING THE CONTENT AUTHOR'S USER EXPERIENCE
7: ADDING MEDIA TO OUR SITE
8: HOW DOES IT TASTE? – GETTING FEEDBACK
9: ADVANCED VIEWS DEVELOPMENT
10: DRUPAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION
11: SEARCHING YOUR SITE WITH THE SEARCH API MODULE
12: RESTFUL WEB SERVICES IN DRUPAL