Backend and Infrastructure

Use Drush to Speed up Common Drupal Development Tasks for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

Back-end developers, and Drupal site builders, often find themselves having to perform the same UI steps over and over again, like exporting configuration, importing configuration changes, running cron, processing a large queue of jobs, indexing items for Search API, and more. Performing these tasks with Drush saves time and reduces the number of clicks required.

Drush core contains commands to execute all the most common tasks. Many contributed modules provide their own Drush commands to make interaction with the module's features, easier, faster, and scriptable.

In this tutorial we'll:

  • Learn about the Drush core commands for common tasks like interacting with queues, performing database backups, and importing/exporting configuration
  • Demonstrate how to find the Drush commands provided by contributed modules in your project

By the end of this tutorial you'll learn some popular commands for common tasks that'll speed up your daily work.

Command Line Tools for Drupal