Module Development

Entity API Hooks for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

Drupal's Entity system provides several hooks that allow custom code to interact with various parts of the entity life cycle.

In this tutorial we'll:

  • Examine the available hooks
  • Learn how to make use of them to act on several different types of operations on individual entities

By the end if this tutorial you should have a better understanding of the hooks available to developers who want to respond to entity lifecycle operations and how to use them to customize the way specific entity types work.