Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition: Practical recipes to harness the power of Drupal for building digital experiences and dynamic websites 3rd ed. Edition

Like any other technical work, i wish it was more verbose when it got to the harder concepts. but that is just me. it can only be so big and it chose to help the reader with the more basic stuff to get them going and allow the advanced user to dig deeper with minimal hand holding.every drupal shop should have a copy of this. very nice present to any drupal developer.Thank you

I read and tried all examples in this book and implemented them in my current work as a developer. It not only helped with my productivity but also mentored others. I wish I had this book in my hands a few years ago when I was struggling to learn Drupal development as a junior developer. It would definitely speed up the process.

After having such a complete failure with another packt book on Drupal 10. I have no faith that this book will be any help either.

had the Drupal 6/7 version of this book when I started out so many (few?) years ago. There is a lot of information for site builders just getting started and it ramps up from there. It covers a lot of concepts and APIs that I've learned the hard way. I like that there's a section on testing and explains hot to work with the JSON API. As a lot of Drupal devs know, it can be a lot of trial, error, rage, grief, acceptance and finally figuring it out. This book removes a lot of the guess work and can alleviate some headaches.

The first Drupal 10 book has hit the shelves. And to quote The Twilight Zone: "It's a cookbook." While it's not "To serve a developer," it should suit the tastes of both the Drupal site builder or developer looking to make a Drupal 10 site.It's been nearly six years since the Drupal 8 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman was released by Packt Publishing. Drupal 9 chefs needed to use old recipes or concoct their own in the intervening years. This year, however, Glaman has been joined by Kevin Quillen to create this 3rd edition. Given that Drupal books are not that frequently or abundantly produced and the cookbook was well-regarded in its earlier edition, this new entrant is welcome and worth a look.While not a slim book, it is not as chunky as some of the books that line my shelves (or fill up my Finder directories). That being said, it's concise and focused on learning by doing: a tutorial with explanations and context for getting more out of it and links to where else you can go to get more depth.While there's overlap with the material covered in the Drupal 8 second edition, there's plenty of new and reconfigured material, particularly "creating custom pages, accessing and manipulating entities, running and creating tests using Drupal, and migrating external data to Drupal," according to the Preface.The structure of the book is similar:Each chapter has multiple recipes that include- Recipe title (such as "Customizing the display output of content" in Chapter 2: Content Building Experience or "Creating multilingual views" in Chapture 11: Multilingual and Internationalization)- "How to do it ..." - This is the step by step tutorial, complete with screenshots and clear directions about what to write on the command line or what UI form elements to use.- "How it works..." - They briefly describe what's happening under the hood to give some context the actions taken above.- "There's more..." [optionally provided] - Here's where they provide additional information, implications, alternative approaches to the one given in the tutorial or links to other resources.I came to this book as primarily as a Drupal site builder but one with experience in front end theming and back-end development. I found it a very useful resource, providing enough challenge and enough information to keep me engaged and wanting to know and do more. If you have Drupal experience as at least a site builder and are comfortable creating a local environment, you could also find it a good refresher of foundational Drupal principals of the Symfony-based Drupal and the new features of Drupal 10. And if you are already using DDEV, you are in luck, as that's the dev environment explicitly used in setting up Drupal.In short, I'm really pleased we've got such a worthy first entrant to the Drupal 10 library.

Drupal offers a way to produce effective and supportable websites to support a variety of needs. The “Drupal 10 Development Cookbook” (Packt , 2023) by Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen provides an excellent, advanced path to updating one’s Drupal’s needs. Each chapter details multiple Drupal functions while including a how to do it, why it works, and sometimes a “there’s more” explanation. The book does not include sections, instead allowing each chapter to move one forward from starting with Drupal to customizing pages, and then calling out through external APIs and migrating external data. Recommend for anyone using Drupal for their business needs.The first three chapters cover the basics of getting started with Drupal, installing the initial features, building content, and displaying various types of content. The book uses Docket, VSCode, and terminal for its main content manipulation. A GUI comes with Drupal 10 for directly manipulating Drupal through a WYSIWYG approach to web pages. This took my back to old days of direct HTML comparisons as well as more modern companies like WIX.The middle section quickly moves into more advanced applications with customized uses, plugins, and the use of entities across pages. Each element remains extensively supported with the code and the GUI interaction necessary to move forward. Plugins and APIs are key elements to any advanced webpage and the text leaves one with no question about how to implement those sections.The last section continues to accelerate the technical track. One of the unique aspects to this book was the inclusion of translation capability. While initially appearing as a minor item, the ability to rapidly translate and make one’s web content globally accessible can be a dynamic advantage in the modern market. One other interesting function was the ability to build automated tests into the content, to ensure that even if a wide number of people can add content to the site, the functions remain functioning the way they are intended.If anything, the book was a little too advanced for the casual reader. The strict focus on code, and the implications of code make it solid gold for experienced developers but somewhat more challenging at the hobbyist level. Some more generic samples, or a common project to use from chapter to chapter would have helped make the book more understandable.Overall, “Drupal 10 Development Cookbook” serves as an advanced reference to the latest release for experienced developers well acquainted with the tool. The why it works section is an excellent inclusion that helps one follow not just the initial code steps but also how to translate the code into effective functions. I recommend the book as a reference for anyone currently using Drupal 10.

I don’t like the lack of graphics

The description of this book is misleading in my opinion. It suggests that writing custom code for Drupal is one of the things you will learn, but in reality almost all of the book is showing how to edit the codebase or write new code to perform tasks. I feel this should have been more clearly stated (and may have gotten you more sales of the book).If you want to learn how to edit & write code to work with Drupal, then this is the book for you.But if you want to learn how to use & configure Drupal without editing & writing code, then I suggest finding another book.

Maybe I was expecting something different, but the author assumes you already know this stuff. So, what’s the point of writing this book?