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Module Development

Learn Drush: The Drupal Shell

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
21 tutorials
What Is Drush? Free
Install Drush Using Composer Free
Enable, Update, and Manage Modules and Themes with Drush Free
Use Drush for Common Site and Environment Management Tasks
Use Drush to Speed up Common Drupal Development Tasks
Use Drush to Deploy Drupal Updates
Overview: Drush's Output Formatting System
Automating Drupal Tasks with Drush and Bash Scripts
Drush Site Aliases
Drush Configuration
Develop Drupal Modules Faster with Drush Code Generators
Create a Custom Drush Code Generator
Overview: Creating Your Own Custom Drush Commands
Create a Custom Drush Command
Use Command Line Arguments with a Custom Drush Command
Add Options to a Custom Drush Command
Add an Interactive Prompt to a Drush Command
Logging and Error Handling in Drush Commands
Create Site-Wide Custom Drush Commands
Overview: Drush Hooks
Alter an Existing Drush Command
Backend and Infrastructure

Docker

Topic
Backend and Infrastructure
More information

For the Drupal developer, Docker is a way to provide a local development environment to run web server software.

Backend and Infrastructure

Docker for Drupal Developers

Guide
Backend and Infrastructure
Backend and Infrastructure

Introducing Docker for Drupal Developers

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
18 tutorials
What Is Docker? Free
Install Docker Free
Run a Container Interactively
What Is a Container?
What Is an Image?
Use a Detached Container
Run Sets of Containers
Create a Compose File
Start, Stop, and List Container Sets
Get Data into Containers
Use Bind Volumes
Set Environment Variables
Expose Ports
Import and Export Databases into a Container
Docker Hub
List, Delete, and Update Images
Use Tags in Docker
Run Drupal in Docker
Backend and Infrastructure

Customizing Docker Images

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
8 tutorials
Custom Docker Images
Add Files to an Image
Install Applications in a Container
Application Configuration
Default Applications in Docker
Custom Entrypoints
Customize an Existing Image
Container Security
Backend and Infrastructure

Docker in Your Workflow

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
11 tutorials
Dockerize an Existing Project Free
Add a Docker-Specific Settings File
Centralize Docker Configuration with an Environment File
Multi-Client Workflow with Docker
Dockerize a Multisite Drupal Install
Use External Services in Docker
Share Containers with Your Team
Create an Automatic Build for Hub
Configure and Use Hub Tags
Run a Self-Hosted Container Registry
Docker in Production
Backend and Infrastructure

Search API and Solr in Drupal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
18 tutorials
Why Solr? Free
Plan a Solr Installation Free
Use Solr Locally Free
Solr Cores
Install Search API
Solr and Multiple Environments
Create Search API Indexes
Populate Search API Indexes
Index Reference Fields
Create Search Pages and Blocks with Views
Multiple Search API Indexes
Processors in Search
Add Excerpts for Search Results
Add Autocomplete to Search
Filter Search Results
Facets in Search
Create a Facet
Create a Facet using Taxonomy
Module Development

Symfony for Drupal Developers

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Backend and Infrastructure

Back up Your Drupal Site

Topic
Site Building, Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
More information

A reliable backup will allow you to restore your site if something goes wrong.

Site Administration

Keep Drupal Up-To-Date

Guide
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Learn to Migrate to Drupal

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Theming

Xdebug

Topic
Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
More information

Debugging your Drupal codebase can be made substantially easier by learning how to enable and configure the Xdebug PHP extension.

Backend and Infrastructure

Acquia Certified Backend Specialist Exam

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 10, 11
Acquia Certification

Acquia Certification Exam Preparation

Guide
Acquia Certification, Site Building, Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 10, 11
Site Building

Drupal User Guide

Guide
Basics, Site Building, Site Administration, Community
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Test Drupal Sites with Automated Tests

Guide
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Backend and Infrastructure

Web Services in Drupal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Decoupling Explained Free
Is Decoupling the Right Choice?
Building a Solid API
Hosting Implications and Considerations
What Are Web Services? Free
Separation of Concerns: Content vs. Presentation
Detect Presentation in Your Data Model
Modern Web Services with JSON:API and GraphQL
Web Service Documentation
Automatic Documentation with Schemata
Theming

Get Started Using React and Drupal Together

Course
Theming, Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
15 tutorials
Introduction to React and Drupal Free
React Basics
Decoupled vs. Progressively Decoupled
Connect React to a Drupal Theme or Module Free
Create a React Component
Add Webpack and React Fast Refresh to a Drupal Theme
Retrieve Data from an API with React
Use React to List Content from Drupal
Create, Update, and Delete Drupal Content with JavaScript
Build an Interface to Edit Nodes with React
Create a Fully Decoupled React Application Free
Use Vite to Start a Decoupled React Application
Use create-react-app to Start a Decoupled React Application
Make API Requests with OAuth
Use Fetch and OAuth to Make Authenticated Requests
Backend and Infrastructure

Using JSON:API in Drupal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Install JSON:API Module
JSON:API Resource Requests Free
JSON:API Relationships
JSON:API Collections
JSON:API Includes
JSON:API Sparse Fieldsets
JSON:API Filtering Collections
JSON:API Filters on Nested Relationships
JSON:API Error Handling
JSON:API Security Considerations
Backend and Infrastructure

API Authentication with JSON:API in Drupal

Course
Backend and Infrastructure
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
8 tutorials
API Authentication and Authorization
Install and Configure Simple OAuth
Get a Token for OAuth 2 Requests
Make an Authenticated Request Using OAuth 2
Access an API from the Browser with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
JSON:API POST Requests: Create an Entity
JSON:API PATCH Requests: Update an Entity
JSON:API DELETE Requests: Delete an Entity

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