Book Description
Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.
Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.
- Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line
- Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
- Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell
- Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
- Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features
Table of Contents
- Preface
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I. Setting Up a Local Development
Environment
- 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
- 2. Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands
- 3. Installing Drush
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4. Getting Started with Version Control
- Master Versus Origin
- Setting Up Git for Your Workflow
- Step 1: Create an SSH Key
- Step 2: Install Git
- Step 3: Set Up Your Git Configuration
- Step 4: Set Up a GitHub Account
- Step 5: Create the Remote Repository
- Step 6: Set Up the Local Repository
- So What Happens on a Team?
- First Things First: The Git Workflow
- And There We Go
- II. Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier
- About the Author
- Copyright