Example tasks

• Use Drupal Console to perform common site administration tasks, like rebuilding the cache, importing configuration, or executing Cron
• Use Drupal Console's code generation tools to create a new custom module
• Use the shell command to interact with your Drupal site in a Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop

Confidence

Drupal Console has relatively recently moved to a new installation method that depends on Composer, and it is kept up to date with the latest versions of core.

Drupalize.Me resources

• Drupal Console

  • This tutorial provides an overview of what Drupal Console can do to help improve your development productivity. It also includes two videos. Th first may help with the installation process and the second provides illustrative examples of how you might use Drupal Console in your daily development tasks.

• Drupal Console podcast

  • While a couple of years old, in this podcast with the core Drupal Console team you will learn about their vision for the project, their evaluation of its core value proposition, and why you should give it a try.

• Discover existing plugin types, events, and services

  • These tutorials all demonstrate using Drupal Console to perform introspection on a Drupal 8 site.

• Generate custom content, and configuration entities

  • These tutorials demonstrate using Drupal Console's generate commands to scaffold creation of custom code to speed up module development.