Drupal 8 Development Solutions

Over 60 hands-on methods that get you acquainted with Drupal 8's features and help you harness its power 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 to staging and production of a website with Drupal 8's brand new configuration management system. Learning 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 About From its beginnings 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 recent release and the exciting features it brings, this course will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful videos. 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 to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This video course 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 video course will provide you with actionable techniques and methods to improve your existing Drupal development skills. It will get you started with Drupal 8 and will be your reference guide to building new applications with Drupal. Up and Running with Drupal 8 Installing Drupal Tools for Setting Up an Environment The Content Authoring Experience Configuring the WYSIWYG Editor Adding and Editing the Content Creating a Menu and Linking Content Providing Inline Editing Creating a Custom Content Type Applying a New Drupal 8 Core Field Types Customizing the Form Display and the Displaying Output of a Node Displaying Content Through Views Listing Content Editing the Default Admin Interfaces Creating a Block from a View Utilizing Dynamic Arguments Adding a Relationship in a View Providing an Entity Reference Result View Extending Drupal Creating a Module Defining a Custom Page Defining Permissions Providing the Configuration on Installation or Update Using Features 2.x Frontend for the Win Creating a Custom-Based Theme on Classy Using the New Asset Management System Twig Templating Using the Breakpoint Module Using the Responsive Image Module Creating Forms with the Form API Creating a Form Using New HTML5 Elements Validating Form Data Processing Submitted Form Data Altering Other Forms Plug and Play with Plugins Creating Blocks Using Plugins Creating a Custom Field Type Creating a Custom Field Widget Creating a Custom Field Formatter Creating a Custom Plugin Type Multilingual and Internationalization Translating Administrative Interfaces Translating Configuration Translating Content Creating Multilingual Views Configuration Management Deploying in Drupal 8 Importing and Exporting Configurations Synchronizing Site Configurations Using the Filesystem for Configuration Storage Off the Drupalicon Island Implementing and Using a Third-Party JavaScript Library Implementing and Using a Third-Party CSS Library