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Module Development

Services and Dependency Injection in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Discover and Use Existing Services
Module Development

Events API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
What Are Events? Free
Discover Existing Events
Subscribe to an Event
Dispatch an Event
Module Development

Routes and Controllers in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Overview: Routes, Controllers, and Responses Free
How to Find a Route in Drupal Free
Create a Route and Controller
Overview: Parameters and Value Upcasting in Routes
Use Parameters in a Route
Set a Dynamic Title for a Route
Define Permissions for a Module
Add Access Checking to a Route
How Drupal Turns a Request into a Response
Return JSON, Plain Text, and Other Non-HTML Responses
Module Development

Coding Menu Links in a Module

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Overview: Menu Links in a Module Free
Add a Menu Link in a Module
Add an Action Link in a Module
Add a Contextual Link in a Module
Add a Local Task Link in a Module
Module Development

Render API Concepts in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Render API Overview Free
What Are Render Arrays?
What Are Render Elements?
Define a New Render Element Type
Render Pipeline
Render API Renderers
Render API Callback Properties
Theming

Output Themeable Content in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Output Plain Text and Simple HTML Markup
Use #prefix and #suffix Properties to Wrap an Element
Use Render Element Types in a Render Array
Output a List of Items
Output a Table
Output Content with a Template File
Add Classes and HTML Attributes to Render Arrays
Generate URLs and Output Links
Get Information about the Current User
Use #access to Show/Hide Elements in a Render Array
Module Development

Cache API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Cache API Overview
Add Cache Metadata to Render Arrays
Use Lazy Builders and Placeholders
Module Development

Entity API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Entity API Overview Free
Entity API Implementation Basics
Create a Custom Content Entity
Scaffold a Custom Content Entity Type with Drush Generators
Working with Entity CRUD
Find Data with EntityQuery
Entity API Hooks
Modify Existing Entities with Alter Hooks
Entity Validation API
Entity Access Control
Typed Data API
Module Development

Field API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Field API Overview Free
Field Types
Field Widgets
Field Formatters
Define a Field Formatter Plugin
Field API Hooks
Module Development

Configuration Entities

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
What Are Configuration Entities? Free
Configuration Data Types Free
Default Configuration in a Module
Provide Initial Settings with Simple Configuration
Create a Settings Form in a Module
Use Simple Configuration in a Form
Create a Configuration Entity
Add Properties to a Configuration Entity
Load and Save Configuration Entity Data
Backend and Infrastructure

Performance and Scalability for Drupal Sites

Course
Site Building, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Overview: Drupal Performance and Scalability Free
Boost Drupal Performance with Contributed Modules Free
Drupal Performance Profiling: Tools and Methodologies
What Are Core Web Vitals?
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with Lighthouse
Analyze Drupal Site Performance with WebPageTest
Overview: Drupal's Cache Modules and Performance Settings
Overview: Drupal's Caching System
Debug Drupal Cache Misses and Low Hit Rates
Extend Drupal Site Monitoring with Contributed Modules
Set Up Advanced Caching on Pantheon Hosting
Set Up Advanced Caching on Acquia Cloud Hosting
Overview: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Drupal
What Is Server Scaling?
Overview: Benchmarking and Performance Budgets
Profile a Drupal Site with Apache Bench
Overview: New Relic as a Drupal Performance Monitor
Profile a Drupal Site with New Relic
Site Administration

Content Moderation and Workflows in Drupal

Course
Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Overview of Workflows and Content Moderation Free
What Are Revisions? Free
Plan an Editorial Workflow
Create a Custom Workflow
Apply an Editorial Workflow to a Content Type
Manage Moderated Content
Moderated Content and Views
Create a View of Moderated Content
Site Administration

Command Line Tools for Drupal

Guide
Site Building, Theming, Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Learn Drush: The Drupal Shell

Course
Module Development, Backend and Infrastructure, Site Administration
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
What Is Drush? Free
Install Drush Using Composer Free
Enable, Update, and Manage Modules and Themes with Drush Free
Use Drush for Common Site and Environment Management Tasks
Use Drush to Speed up Common Drupal Development Tasks
Use Drush to Deploy Drupal Updates
Overview: Drush's Output Formatting System
Automating Drupal Tasks with Drush and Bash Scripts
Drush Site Aliases
Drush Configuration
Develop Drupal Modules Faster with Drush Code Generators
Create a Custom Drush Code Generator
Overview: Creating Your Own Custom Drush Commands
Create a Custom Drush Command
Use Command Line Arguments with a Custom Drush Command
Add Options to a Custom Drush Command
Add an Interactive Prompt to a Drush Command
Logging and Error Handling in Drush Commands
Create Site-Wide Custom Drush Commands
Overview: Drush Hooks
Alter an Existing Drush Command
Theming

Integrate JavaScript with Drupal

Guide
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Theming

Using JavaScript in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Overview: JavaScript in Drupal
Load JavaScript in Drupal with Drupal.behaviors
Wrap Your Custom JavaScript in a Closure
Use Server-Side Settings with drupalSettings
String Manipulation in JavaScript
Use Drupal.theme for HTML Markup in JavaScript
Standardize Your JavaScript with ESLint
Modernizr.js in a Theme or Module
Underscore.js in a Theme or Module
Backbone.js in a Theme or Module
Module Development

Internationalization (i18n) in Drupal

Course
Theming, Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Make Strings Translatable
Use Drupal.t() for Translatable Strings in JavaScript
Make Your Theme Translatable
Module Development

Decoupled Headless Drupal

Guide
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Module Development

Web Services in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Decoupling Explained Free
Is Decoupling the Right Choice?
Building a Solid API
Hosting Implications and Considerations
What Are Web Services? Free
Separation of Concerns: Content vs. Presentation
Detect Presentation in Your Data Model
Modern Web Services with JSON:API and GraphQL
Web Service Documentation
Automatic Documentation with Schemata
Module Development

Using JSON:API in Drupal

Course
Module Development
Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Install JSON:API Module
JSON:API Resource Requests Free
JSON:API Relationships
JSON:API Collections
JSON:API Includes
JSON:API Sparse Fieldsets
JSON:API Filtering Collections
JSON:API Filters on Nested Relationships
JSON:API Error Handling
JSON:API Security Considerations

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