We've got some new tutorials on Drupal 8 module development on the different kinds of menu links. We've also added a pair of tutorials on how to add an info file so that Drupal can recognize your module and how to define permissions for a module in Drupal 8. Our Drupal 8 Module Development Guide is ever-expanding; if you haven't checked it out lately, you might want to take a look. So far we've covered topics such as Plugins, Events, and Hooks as well as an assortment of other subjects.

This week we continue with the recent theme of teaching you how a module can extend, alter, and enhance Drupal without modifying core code by looking at hooks.

New tutorials covering Drupal 8's plugin API, annotations, and Drupal console were recently added.

With the release of Drupal 8 comes a new way of making web requests, available via the Drupal::httpClient. This is simply a wrapper for the wonderful Guzzle HTTP Client. In this post, we'll take a look at how we can use the Drupal::httpClient class for making HTTP requests in a module.

Ready to take your PHP development to the next level? This week, we have another batch of video tutorials from the awesome folks at JetBrains on their IDE, PhpStorm. In these tutorials, you'll learn how to generate code using templates, set up your modern PHP app with namespaces, PSR-0 or PSR-4, integrate Composer, and debug like a pro.