Drupal 8 Development Beginner's Guide

by Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen

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.

398 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2016

Reviews

[Dave Brown · Rating 1 out of 5]

Parts of this book are helpful is a primer to what has changed between earlier versions of Drupal and Drupal 8. In general, though, a lot of examples are lifted directly from Drupal's official documentation, especially early in the book. It feels like it has undergone to copy-editing as it is riddled with typos throughout. Worse, it has a lot of buggy code in the examples. I shouldn't have to spend time de-bugging the author's code as I'm reading the book. This isn't a Drupal resource that I can recommend.

[Ali Jazayeri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good comprehensive visibility with respect to the features and development of Drupal 8.

[Suz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm glad to be finished with Drupal.