Drupal 8 Blueprints: Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

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Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

Latest news is an important part of any website for many businesses. They allow the business

to engage with their customers and keep their employees updated. In this chapter, we will create a simple news website using Drupal 8 core functionality. This can also be used as a blog; we're just making it sound exciting and relatable.

This chapter will be a little more in depth in showing how the basic functionality of Drupal works; this will allow quicker development later throughout the book.

We will explore the following topics in the chapter:

Creating a new content type
Creating taxonomy terms and associating them to news posts
Using custom views to display the listing and individual news pages
Enabling a comment field to allow user comments
Referencing...

Key benefits

Create and design your own customized website effortlessly and efficiently

This up-to-date guide on Drupal 8 will show you how you can leverage the latest Drupal 8 features

This hands-on guide will turn you into a professional grade Drupal 8 developer through 7 unique and engaging web sites

Description

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.

Who is this book for?

This book is ideal for web developers who are looking to create professional web applications using Drupal 8. You should have some previous experience with Drupal and must have a basic knowledge of web application development in general. If you are looking to create fluent professional websites that will take you to the next level, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

Find out how to use the Drupal 8 core functionality to build great websites

Discover how to better manage content using custom blocks and views

Display content in multiple ways, taking advantage of display modes

Using the new TWIG theme engine for Drupal

Easily manage and filter content

Understanding best practices for building great Drupal sites

Move beyond Drupal to build headless websites using RESTful services and JavaScript frameworks

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