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Drupal 8 Module Development
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Drupal 8 Module Development

by Daniel Sipos
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
14h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating Your First Module

Now that we have covered some of the introductory aspects of Drupal 8 module development, it’s time to dive right into the meat of what we are doing here--module creation.

Here are some of the important topics that we will cover in this chapter:

  • Creating a new Drupal 8 module--the files that are necessary to get started
  • Creating a route and controller
  • Creating and using a service
  • Creating a form
  • Creating a custom block
  • Working with links
  • Using the Event Dispatcher

Concretely, in this chapter, we will create a new custom module called Hello World. In this module, we will define a route that maps to a Controller and that outputs the age-old programming message. So, this will be our first win.

Next, we will define ...

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