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Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide
Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide

Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide: , Second Edition

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Profile Icon Neeraj Kumar Profile Icon Kurt Madel Profile Icon Edward Crompton Profile Icon Rakesh James Profile Icon Malabya Tewari Profile Icon Tassos Koutlas Profile Icon Samuel Keen Profile Icon Krishna Kanth Profile Icon Ben Wilding +5 more Show less
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Profile Icon Neeraj Kumar Profile Icon Kurt Madel Profile Icon Edward Crompton Profile Icon Rakesh James Profile Icon Malabya Tewari Profile Icon Tassos Koutlas Profile Icon Samuel Keen Profile Icon Krishna Kanth Profile Icon Ben Wilding +5 more Show less
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Full star icon Half star icon Empty star icon Empty star icon Empty star icon 1.7 (6 Ratings)
Course Jun 2016 2nd Edition
eBook
$32.39 $35.99
Paperback
$44.99
eBook
$32.39 $35.99
Paperback
$44.99

Key benefits

  • *Explore the new features of Drupal 8 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website
  • *Learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and the newly introduced native web services in Drupal 8
  • *A hands-on, example-driven guide to developing Drupal websites that covers everything from site building, theme development, creating custom modules, as well as the development environment

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer who wants to use Drupal to enhance your website project and web application to manage content, this book is for you. Whether you are new to Drupal or an experienced web developer, you will be able to master both basic configuration and advanced module development in Drupal through this book.

What you will learn

  • *Set up your Drupal development environment
  • *Brush up on your understanding of the concepts of object-oriented programming, module development, and test-driven development
  • *Install and configure Drupal, add new content type, and work through lot of dummy content to create listing pages using views
  • *Enhance the content author’s user experience and custom block
  • *Find out about field Type API and explore custom theme development
  • *Manage various media types in Drupal for your content-rich website

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Publication date : Jun 30, 2016
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
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Publication date : Jun 30, 2016
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Setting Up a Drupal Development Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Custom Module Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Drupal Views and Configuration Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction to the Field Types API and Developing the Custom Field Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Theming in Drupal 8 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enhancing the Content Author's User Experience Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Media to Our Site Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Does It Taste? – Getting Feedback Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Views Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Drupal Project Management and Collaboration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Searching Your Site with the Search API Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
RESTful Web Services in Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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I have worked with drupal 7 for about four years now, for drupal site development and working on a few custom codes. Trying to learn drupal 8 was a little overwhelming but this book pulled me through. Normally a person would need to go to different sources to learn most of the things wrt drupal 8 but that are all present in this book.Not sure about a beginner but this will definitely help someone who knows the basics of drupal.
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Chapter 2. Custom Module DevelopmentHow the heck is this a beginner chapter 2 topic ???????Master what is part of the core before adding your own modules !
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Diana Johnson Feb 16, 2017
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The technical review and editing was awful. The code examples had so many errors, it distracted from the concept.The author knows his stuff, no doubt. But the poor editing made that knowledge impossible to understand.This is why people pirate books: they don't mind paying for BOOKS, they mind being tricked into paying for JUNK.
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At first sight the book looks to be very much ok. However, once you try to do some of the stuff they explain in the book you experience the problems with the book. There are a lot of typos and consistencies scattered throughout all examples I did, which makes it a lot harder than it should be. When they ask you to create a file e.g. they don't tell exactly where the file has to be created, and after making it work I also discovered they only provided a section of the file in the book, not the complete file (while the code was not in the code archive). In that case they did use the hello_world example for the (free) drupal documentation where the accompanying code does work of course.A little bit later you get told that every unit test case class has to end on "test", two lines below that the statement is that it should start with "test". The book had potential, but it seems to be kind of rush job.
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David Brown May 13, 2017
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This feels like a book that was never edited. Typographical errors abound, making the author's descriptions extremely difficult to follow. Instructions include architectural information and naming conventions that do not work in Drupal. The author re-purposes examples taken from Drupal's documentation, which is available for free. Code samples are riddled with errors and include troubleshooting code that has been commented out. In short, the book includes frequent instances of code that I would never let go to production. I was three chapters in and had spent over an hour de-bugging the author's code when I abandoned the book. This is a terrible learning resource for Drupal and a waste of money. Avoid at all costs.
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