The Git version control system can help you keep track of changes in your codebase and make sure you don't unintentionally lose work.

Drupal Console provided a command line utility for performing common site administration tasks, code generation scaffolding, and a Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop for interacting with your Drupal site.

It is no longer actively maintained. Use Drush instead.

Composer is the preferred dependency management solution for PHP, is used by Drupal core, and is becoming increasingly popular for managing the modules and themes used for a Drupal project.

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

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

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

Object-oriented PHP utilizes classes and objects to organize code into reusable chunks. This approach helps us organize complex applications, such as Drupal, into modular code called classes that can be reused across the entire system.

Drupal's content moderation and workflow tools allow you to configure and support a flexible multistep publication process.

An overview of some of our favorite Drupal documentation resources.

Upgrading is the process of moving your site from a previous major version of Drupal to a newer version, for example from Drupal 7 to Drupal 11.

Drupal includes the PHPUnit testing framework. This enables us to write unit and functional tests to attempt to minimize the number of bugs in our application.

As an open source project, Drupal depends on community contributions in many forms including documentation, code, translation, speaking, organizing events, mentoring others, and even donating money.

Drush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).

To ensure that your site and its modules continue to function correctly, a set of administrative operations should be performed periodically. These operations are referred to as cron tasks. Examples of cron tasks are: checking for module and theme updates, indexing content for search, or cleaning up temporary files.