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Backend and Infrastructure

Performance and Scalability for Drupal Sites

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
18 tutorials
Overview: Drupal Performance and Scalability Free
Boost Drupal Performance with Contributed Modules Free
Drupal Performance Profiling: Tools and Methodologies
What Are Core Web Vitals?
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with Lighthouse
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with WebPageTest
Overview: Drupal's Cache Modules and Performance Settings
Overview: Drupal's Caching System
Debug Drupal Cache Misses and Low Hit Rates
Extend Drupal Site Monitoring with Contributed Modules
Set Up Advanced Caching on Pantheon Hosting
Set Up Advanced Caching on Acquia Cloud Hosting
Overview: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Drupal
What Is Server Scaling?
Overview: Benchmarking and Performance Budgets
Profile a Drupal Site with Apache Bench
Overview: New Relic as a Drupal Performance Monitor
Profile a Drupal Site with New Relic
Site Administration

Content Moderation and Workflows in Drupal

Course
Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
8 tutorials
Overview of Workflows and Content Moderation Free
What Are Revisions? Free
Plan an Editorial Workflow
Create a Custom Workflow
Apply an Editorial Workflow to a Content Type
Manage Moderated Content
Moderated Content and Views
Create a View of Moderated Content
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

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
Theming

Using JavaScript in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Overview: JavaScript in Drupal
Load JavaScript in Drupal with Drupal.behaviors
Wrap Your Custom JavaScript in a Closure
Use Server-Side Settings with drupalSettings
String Manipulation in JavaScript
Use Drupal.theme for HTML Markup in JavaScript
Standardize Your JavaScript with ESLint
Modernizr.js in a Theme or Module
Underscore.js in a Theme or Module
Backbone.js in a Theme or Module
Module Development

Internationalization (i18n) in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
3 tutorials
Make Strings Translatable
Use Drupal.t() for Translatable Strings in JavaScript
Make Your Theme Translatable
Module Development

Web Services in Drupal

Course
Module Development
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
Module Development

Using JSON:API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
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
Theming

Creating Themes in Drupal

Course
Theming
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Structure of a Theme
Start a New Theme with Starterkit
Describe Your Theme with an Info File
Theme Inheritance with Base Themes
Drupal Base Themes: Stable and Classy
Use a Base Theme
Regions
Add Regions to a Theme
Fast by Default
Configure Your Environment for Theme Development
Theming

Template Files in Drupal Themes

Course
Theming
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
6 tutorials
What Are Template Files?
Override a Template File
Determine the Base Name of a Template
Inspect Variables Available in a Template
Overview: Theming Views Free
Override a View's Wrapper Template
Theming

Using Twig in Drupal Templates

Course
Theming
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Twig in Drupal
Twig Syntax Delimiters
Arrays and Objects in Twig
Loops and Iterators in Twig
Print Values from a Field with a For Loop
Twig Filters and Functions
Whitespace Control with Twig
Classes and Attributes in Twig Templates
Create Links with Twig in a Template File
Twig Template Inheritance
Theming

Asset Libraries in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
4 tutorials
What Are Asset Libraries?
Define an Asset Library
Attach an Asset Library
Extend or Alter Existing CSS and JavaScript Asset Libraries
Theming

Preprocess Functions in Drupal Themes

Course
Theming
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
4 tutorials
Add Logic with THEMENAME.theme
What Are Preprocess Functions?
Change Variables with Preprocess Functions
Add Variables to a Template File
Theming

Theme Hook Suggestions for Drupal Templates

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
2 tutorials
Discover Existing Theme Hook Suggestions
Add New Theme Hook Suggestions
Theming

Hands-On Theming Exercises for Drupal

Course
Theming
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Set Up Demo Site for Theming Practice Free
Exercise: Create a New Theme
Exercise: Add an Asset Library
Exercise: Configure Your Environment for Theme Development
Exercise: Override the Main Page Template
Exercise: Override the Node Template
Exercise: Override the Main Menu Template
Exercise: Override the Image Field Template
Exercise: Use the t Filter in a Template
Exercise: Preprocess Functions
Module Development

Creating Forms in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
10 tutorials
Form API Overview Free
Form API Life Cycle
Define a New Form Controller and Route
Add Input Elements to a Form
Inject Services into a Form Controller
Provide Default Values for Form Elements
Form Element Reference Free
Alter an Existing Form with hook_form_alter()
Retrieve and Display Forms
Theming Drupal Forms with Twig
Module Development

Validating Forms in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
4 tutorials
Validate Form Input
Validate a Form via the Form Controller
Add a Validation Callback to an Existing Form
Validate a Single Form Element
Module Development

Processing Forms in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
3 tutorials
Handle Submitted Form Data
Process Submitted Form Data with a Callback
Process Submitted Form Data via the Form Controller

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