Drupal 10 Development Cookbook: Practical recipes to harness the power of Drupal for building digital experiences and dynamic websites

Key Features

• Design your digital experience platform with robust content management and editorial workflows
• Write custom modules to extend Drupal to meet your requirements by creating customized plugins, entity types, and pages
• Enhance your Drupal site using modern frontend development build tools

Book Description

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup.

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.

What you will learn

• Create and manage a Drupal site’s codebase
• Design tailored content creator experiences
• Leverage Drupal by creating customized pages and plugins
• Turn Drupal into an API platform for exposing content to consumers
• Import data into Drupal using the data migration APIs
• Advance your Drupal site with modern frontend tools using Laravel Mix

Who this book is for

If you are a beginner or an intermediate Drupal developer, looking to jumpstart your journey in application building, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of web development is required.

Table of Contents

1. Up and Running with Drupal
2. Content Building Experience
3. Displaying Content through Views
4. Extending Drupal with Custom Code
5. Creating Custom Pages
6. Accessing and working with entities
7. Creating Forms with the Form API
8. Plug and Play with Plugins
9. Creating Custom Entity Type
10. Theming and Frontend Development
11. Multilingual and Internationalization
12. Building APIs with Drupal
13. Writing Automated Tests in Drupal
14. Migrating External Data into Drupal

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.

Kevin Quillen has been working with Drupal since 2006. He’s contributed several community modules, and built websites using Drupal for brands such as Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, the National Bureau of Economics, Harvard University, MTV, Yale University, Verizon, the Museum of Science, and countless others. You can find him engaged and helping community members on Slack, Drupal StackExchange, or sharing his thoughts on his personal blog. Kevin is also an Acquia Triple Certified Drupal Expert, an Acquia Certified Site Studio Site Builder, and an Acquia Certified Cloud Platform Pro. He is currently a principal developer and Drupal practice lead at Velir.