LEARNING PATH: Drupal: Responsive Apps with Drupal 8

Drupal is one of the most popular web content management systems on the planet and offers an incredible array of features and functionality. Small nonprofits and businesses to multi-billion dollar multinational companies are all using Drupal as the core of their presence on the web. Drupal 8 brings a lot of groundbreaking changes to its ecosystem, from basic architectural to functional. Understanding these changes is vital to you if you are trying to explore Drupal 8 and become a qualified Drupal 8 professional. Drupal will help you build your skill level from ground level up and enable you to create an efficient Drupal 8 application from scratch. If you're interested to build a fully featured, multilingual, responsive web application with Drupal 8, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Explore the world of various views and components in Drupal 8
• Understand how to test, deploy and monitor your application
• Leverage Drupal 8's mobile-first philosophy to make your website accessible on any device

This practical step-by-step Learning Path will ensure that you build a stunning, fully-featured, multilingual, and responsive web-application with Drupal 8.

Let’s take a quick look at your learning journey…

You’ll start off with the primary focal points of Drupal 8’s key features and its importance. Then, you’ll start building your Drupal 8 app, create the application architecture, and use Drupal 8’s views and components extensively. You’ll learn how to create reusable templates using PHP scripting, use plugins, and develop simple plugins on your own. You’ll explore the use of views module (now part of core!) and other contributed modules to add a bit of customization to the site. You’ll also create a new functionality of your own, including providing REST web services. Finally, you’ll take a brief look at how to create a mobile-friendly theme that ensures anybody on any device can take advantage of the amazing site you’ve built.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have acquired core components of Drupal 8 to test, deploy, and monitor your fully-featured, multilingual application effectively with no custom coding.

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best work of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Jason Blandahas been professionally developing and deploying websites using the Drupal content management system for over 7 years. He runs the One Stop How to Guys YouTube channel, offering a wide variety of free educational courses including but not limited to Drupal 8. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arch board Media, a website development company in Canton, Ohio, building websites and web apps on the Drupal content management system.
• In a prior lifetime, Marc Isaacson was an AS/400 RPG application developer. He left the programming field entirely in 2001 to pursue other interests, including teaching High School math. Marc first fell in love with Drupal in 2008 when he was playing around with creating websites for his own projects. At the time, he didn't have any intention of returning to the programming field; Drupal was just a tool that helped him to get the job done. After a series of life events conspired to bring him back to programming, he decided to teach himself to be a web developer. Naturally, he chose Drupal as the tool to learn. Marc started building websites for clients in 2010 and now specializes in using Drupal as a framework to build custom web applications. Marc has attended and presented at many Drupal camps, including DrupalCamp Colorado and BADCamp. He has also attended every North American DrupalCon since DrupalCon Denver in 2012. His first time acting as a Core Sprint Mentor was at DrupalCon New Orleans in 2016.