Drupal 8: Efficient Application Development

Drupal is one of the most popular platforms 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.

What details do you cover in this course?

Drupal 8 brings a lot of groundbreaking changes to its ecosystem, from basic architectural changes to functional ones. Understanding these changes is vital to you if you are trying to explore Drupal 8.

In this course, you will get a practical knowledge of Drupal 8, that means we can jump into any existing Drupal 8 website and understand how it is built and how it is put together. Finally, we will learn to launch a Drupal 8 website.

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. Views were used on more than 80% of all Drupal 7 sites; now they are part of the Drupal 8 core. If you use views, you might build 10 different view displays with different filters, without knowing that a contextual filter would require only a single display.

You’ll see how to create reusable templates using PHP scripting and use plugins and develop simple plugins on your own.

Towards the end of this course, you’ll find out how to test, deploy, and monitor your application effectively.

To summarize, we begin with exploring new features in Drupal 8 and understand the building blocks to create a website. We then create our own custom themes, deploy and maintain a website.

We then move on to learn about the updates and reports of building a Drupal website as things get outdated and security releases come out often.

Finally we build a simple blogging website.

What am I going to get from this course?

• Discover how to create complex websites quickly

• Find out how to use the building blocks of Drupal 8

• Manage site users and permissions

• Explore the world of various views and components in Drupal 8

• Understand the process of making reusable templates

• Use different plugins and create your own plugins

• Understand how to test, deploy, and monitor your application

This course takes a step-by-step, practical, tutorial-style approach. Each section will help you build up your skill level and enable you to become an efficient Drupal 8 professional.

We have combined the best of the following Packt products:

• Drupal 8 for Beginners by Jason Blanda
• Mastering Drupal 8 Views by Gregg Marshall
• Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition by Neeraj Kumar et al.

Meet your expert instructors:

Jason Blanda has been professionally developing and deploying websites using the Drupal content management system for over 7 years.

Gregg Marshall works as a consultant/contractor, frequently mentoring in-house development teams on Drupal best practices.

Neeraj Kumar is a Drupal architect, author, project manager, and overall geeky guy who enjoys using technology for bringing value to businesses.

Meet your managing editor:

This course has been planned and designed for you by me, Tanmayee Patil. I'm here to help you be successful every step of the way, and get maximum value out of your course purchase. If you have any questions along the way, you can reach out to me and our author group via the instructor contact feature on Udemy.