The Git version control system can help you keep track of changes in your codebase and make sure you don't unintentionally lose work.

The Drupal Composer Project provides a scaffold for starting a new Drupal project and managing that project's dependencies with Composer. It was created before the drupal/recommended-project Composer project template was developed, which is the current best practice method for creating a new Drupal site with Composer.

Debugging your Drupal codebase can be made substantially easier by learning how to enable and configure the Xdebug PHP extension.

Drupal Console provided a command line utility for performing common site administration tasks, code generation scaffolding, and a Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop for interacting with your Drupal site.

It is no longer actively maintained. Use Drush instead.

Object-oriented PHP utilizes classes and objects to organize code into reusable chunks. This approach helps us organize complex applications, such as Drupal, into modular code called classes that can be reused across the entire system.

Composer is the preferred dependency management solution for PHP, is used by Drupal core, and is becoming increasingly popular for managing the modules and themes used for a Drupal project.

For the Drupal developer, Docker is a way to provide a local development environment to run web server software.

Drupal's content moderation and workflow tools allow you to configure and support a flexible multistep publication process.

An overview of some of our favorite Drupal documentation resources.

Drupal includes the PHPUnit testing framework. This enables us to write unit and functional tests to attempt to minimize the number of bugs in our application.

Upgrading is the process of moving your site from a previous major version of Drupal to a newer version, for example from Drupal 7 to Drupal 11.

As an open source project, Drupal depends on community contributions in many forms including documentation, code, translation, speaking, organizing events, mentoring others, and even donating money.

A reliable backup will allow you to restore your site if something goes wrong.

Drush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).