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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition
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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

by Daniel Sipos
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
15h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Plugins

Plugins are new to Drupal 8 and are an elegant solution to an important problem— encapsulating functionality. Right off the bat, you should not confuse them with things such as the WordPress plugins, which are more akin to Drupal modules. Instead, you should think of plugins as components of reusable code that can be used and managed by a central system. Typically, they are used when a system handles a task in a certain way (plugin A) but allows other modules to provide different ways to handle that task (plugin B or C).

You can also look at plugins as being opposite to entities: not used for data storage, but for functionality. Instead of creating a type of data that gets stored, you create a type of functionality that is used. The ...

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