Drupal 8 development cookbook : harness the power of Drupal 8 with this recipe-based practical guide / Matt Glaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaman, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drupal (Computer file).

Web site development.

Open source software.

Web sites--Management.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Drupal eight development cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Glaman Matt: Matt Glaman is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013. Since then, he has contributed to Drupal core and over 60 community projects. He is also a speaker at multiple Drupal community events, including DrupalCon. Matt is currently a principal software engineer at Acquia and was previously a product lead at Centarro, helping maintain Drupal Commerce.

Summary:

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-part...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Up and Running with Drupal 8

Introduction

Installing Drupal

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a database user and a database

Database prefixes

Downloading and installing with Drush

Using Composer to create a Drupal site

Security updates

See also

Using a distribution with Drupal

Makefiles

Installing with Drush

Using Composer

See also...

Installing modules and themes

Discovering modules and themes

Module installation

Theme installation

Installing a module or theme using Composer

Installing a module with Drush

Uninstalling a module

Using multisites in Drupal 8

Security concerns

Domain aliases

Tools for setting up an environment

Acquia Dev Desktop

XAMPP + Bitnami

Kalabox

Running tests - Simpletest and PHPUnit

Is run-tests a shell script?

Running tests without Drupal installed

Running specific tests

PhpStorm - Drupal Test Runner

DrupalCI

Chapter 2: The Content Authoring Experience

Configuring the WYSIWYG editor

Filter module

Improved links

CKEditor plugins

Adding and editing content

How to do it.

How it works...

Save as draft

Pathauto

Bulk moderation

Creating a menu and linking content

Managing a contents menu link from its form

Providing inline editing

The outside-in approach

Creating a custom content type

Applying new Drupal 8 core field types

Link

The Email field

The Telephone field

The Date field

The Entity Reference field

Upcoming updates

Views and Entity Reference

Customizing the form display of a node

Managing form display modes

Programmatically providing a default to hidden form items

Customizing the display output of a node

Chapter 3: Displaying Content through Views

Listing content

Views in Drupal core initiative

Views and displays

Format style plugins - style and row

Using the Embed display

Editing the default admin interfaces

Exposed versus non-exposed

Filter identifiers

Overriding routes with Views

Creating a block from a View

Exposed forms as blocks

Utilizing dynamic arguments

Previewing with contextual filters

Displaying as a tab on the user page

Altering the page title

Validation

Multiple and exclusion.

Adding a relationship in a View

Relationships provided by entity reference fields

Relationships provided through custom code

Using aggregation and views.

Providing an Entity Reference result View

Chapter 4: Extending Drupal

Creating a module

Module namespaces

Module discovery locations

Defining a package group

Module dependencies

Specifying the module's version

Defining a custom page

Parameters in routes

Validating parameters in routes

Route requirements

Providing dynamic routes

Altering existing routes

Defining permissions

Restrict access flag for permissions

Defining permissions programmatically

Checking whether a user has permissions

Providing the configuration on the installation or update

Configuration subdirectories

Modifying the existing configuration on installation

Creating an event subscriber

Using dependency injection

Using Features 3.0

Suggested feature modules

Features bundles

Managing the configuration state of Features

Chapter 5: Frontend for the Win

Creating a custom theme based on Classy

Theme screenshots

Themes, logos, and favicons

Base themes and shared resources

CKEditor style sheets.

See also

Using the new asset management system

CSS groups

Library asset options

Library dependencies

Overriding and extending other libraries

Using a CDN or external resource as a library

Manipulating libraries from hooks

Placing JavaScript in the header

Twig templating

Security first

Theme hook suggestions

Debugging template file selection and hook suggestions

The Twig logic and operators

Using the Breakpoint module

Caveat for providing breakpoints from themes

Accessing breakpoints programmatically

Multipliers

Using the Responsive Image module

Performance first delivery

Removing picturefill polyfill

Chapter 6: Creating Forms with the Form API

Creating a form

Form element definitions

The form state

The form cache

Using new HTML5 elements

Specific element properties

Creating new elements

Validating form data

Multiple validation handlers

Accessing multidimensional array values

Element validation methods

Processing submitted form data

Multiple submit handlers

Altering other forms

There's more.

Adding additional validate handlers

Adding additional submit handlers

Chapter 7: Plug and Play with Plugins

Creating blocks using plugins

Altering blocks

Block settings forms

Defining access to a block

Creating a custom field type

Altering field types

Defining whether a field is empty

Creating a custom field widget

Field widget settings and summary

Creating a custom field formatter

Formatter settings and summary

Creating a custom plugin type

Specifying an alter hook

Using a cache backend

Accessing plugins through the manager

Chapter 8: Multilingual and Internationalization

Translating administrative interfaces

Manually installing language files

Checking translation status

Exporting translations

Interface translation permissions

Using interface translation to customize default English strings

Interface text language detection

Providing translations for a custom module

Translating configuration

Altering configuration translation info definitions

Translating views

Translating content

How it works

Flagging translations as outdated

Translating content links.

Defining translation handlers for entities.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2017).

OCLC:

1007536526