Drupal 8 Development Cookbook: Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this recipe-based practical guide, Edition 2

· Packt Publishing Ltd
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Over 60 hands-on recipes that get you acquainted with Drupal 8's features and help you harness its powerAbout This BookDiscover the enhanced content authoring experience that comes with Drupal 8 and how to customize itTake advantage of the broadened multilingual and tools of the new version to provide an internationalized websiteThis 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 systemWho 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 LearnExtend Drupal through contributed or custom modules and themesDevelop an internationalized website with Drupal's multilingual toolsIntegrate third-party front-end and back-end libraries with DrupalTurn Drupal into a web services provider using RESTCreate a mobile-first responsive Drupal applicationRun SimpleTest and PHPUnit to test DrupalUnderstand the plugin system that powers many of Drupal 8's new APIs to extend its functionalityGet to grips with the mechanics of the configuration management system and the ability to import and export site configurationIn 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.

About the author

Matt Glaman is a Senior Drupal Consultant at Commerce Guys and co-maintainer of Drupal Commerce. He is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013. Since then, he has contributed to over 60 community project.

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