At this point, whether we've decided to use a third-party pre-rendering service or we've written our own isomorphic JavaScript application to serve as the front-end of our website, our hosting requirements have definitely gotten more complex. Let's take a look at the continuum of decoupled site architectures and start to come up with a list of things to keep in mind when considering their hosting requirements.

Today's Drupal developer needs more than just a text editor and FTP. Best practice Drupal development involves a suite of tools, processes, and more than one server environment.

This tutorial is directed toward an audience that is not familiar with best practices in Drupal Development and methods involving version control with Git, IDEs, local development environments, and deployment environments (i.e. stage, live). Here we're providing a high-level overview of these topics with links to dive deeper if you need more information.

In this tutorial, we'll cover:

• Introduce Version Control Systems such as Git
• Discuss how Git can be used to deploy to remote web servers
• Review programming-centric text editors and Integrated Development Environments
• Identify the need for a local development environment.
• Explain shared deployment environments including production and stage.

A multisite Drupal installation allows you to host multiple, separate websites while relying on the same set of code. Large organizations often rely on a multisite installation to cut down on the operational upkeep of multiple sites. Hosting a multisite in Docker poses several additional challenges. Fortunately, the process is not dissimilar from configuring a bare-metal server to run a multisite.

In this tutorial, we'll:

• Outline a multisite's additional requirements for Docker containers.
• Configure alternate, local domain names to resolve each site.
• Learn how to configure a multisite to use alternate domain names.

This exercise will have you demonstrate knowledge of the installation process and how to customize Drupal for an improved experience when using the administration UI.

This exercise requires you to analyze wireframes detailing the architecture of a website and design a content type to store all the required information.

In this exercise you will demonstrate the ability to build a ‘Movie Review’ content type based on our design by downloading contributed modules to provide all the necessary field types.

This exercise will require you to build a view which lists films filtered by genre and create image styles to format images for different purposes.

In this exercise you will demonstrate more advanced Views skills by building a view with a relationship between content and taxonomy and formatting the output using a table.

In this exercise you will demonstrate knowledge of Panels, and create a layout for the Top Ten List page, and create and configure content within Panel Panes.

In this exercise you will build and position quicktabs within a panel page.

In this exercise you will create and position menus, static pages, and webforms, which can be accessed via the menu.

In this exercise you will combine knowledge of Panels and Views to create a complex page layout.

In this exercise you will create URL aliases for all content, and create user roles to allow logged-in users to create content.

In this exercise you will demonstrate knowledge of core search by enabling site search, configuring the search display to format the content, and indexing the content.

In this exercise you will demonstrate your ability to create a custom theme as a subtheme based on Zen and use Sass.

This exercise will have you demonstrate an understanding of Drupal themes and how to develop CSS to theme the default markup created by Drupal, with particular reference to CSS naming conventions.

In this exercise you will demonstrate that you understand the CSS patterns used for smaller elements of Drupal such as fields, and can create selectors which override them appropriately. You will also override template files to create your own markup and suggest new template files.

In this exercise you will demonstrate your ability to attach JavaScript to themes, and use Drupal behaviors to enhance the functionality of a website.

In this exercise you will demonstrate that you understand the concept of responsive CSS and the methods which can be used to implement it in a Drupal theme.

Create a custom module and alter the content on a node page using a hook and existing theme functions.