Nick Abbott - Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development.

, Learning Drupal 8 , takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. You will start with the basics, such as setting up a local "stack" development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then we move on to image and media handling and extending Drupal modules. This section will help you get to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and you'll learn how to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. After learning to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal 8, you'll start exploring different techniques to take advantage of the new Drupal 8 features.

, Drupal 8 Development Cookbook , is your go-to guide to experimenting with all of Drupal 8's features through helpful recipes. You will explore techniques to customize and configure the Drupal environment, create blocks and custom modules, as well as make your web apps responsive by harnessing the mobile-first feature of Drupal 8. This module will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.

, Drupal 8 Theming with Twig , you will master Drupal 8's new Twig templating engine to customize the look and feel of your website. This section will walk you through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. You will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.

By the end, you will have learned how to develop, manage, extend, and customize an enterprise-level website.

For Module 1:

In order to follow along with this module you will need to install Drupal on your own development environment. The steps to do this are given in , Installation . A laptop or desktop machine should be sufficient, you will not need a commercial web server to complete the exercises detailed in the chapters to follow. Drupal works in any modern browser. You will not need to edit any PHP code to complete the chapters in this module.

For Module 2:

In order to work with Drupal 8 and to run the code examples found in this module, the following software will be required:

Web server software stack:

, Up and Running with Drupal 8 , details all of these requirements and includes a recipe that highlights an out of the box development server setup.

You will also need a text editor. Here is a list of suggested popular editors and IDEs:

For Module 3:

To follow along with this module, you need an installation of Drupal 8, preferably in a local development environment located on a Windows, Mac, or Linux-based computer. Documentation regarding setting up a local development environment can be found at https://www.drupal.org/setting-up-development-environment.

Specific system requirements are listed at , Setting Up Our Development Environment .

To follow along with each lesson, you will need a text editor or IDE. To see a list of software to consider when developing in Drupal 8 you can refer to https://www.drupal.org/node/147789.