Chapter 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8

In this chapter we'll get familiar with Drupal 8 and cover:

  • Installing Drupal
  • Using a distribution
  • Installing modules and themes
  • Using multisites in Drupal 8
  • Tools for setting up an environment
  • Running Simpletest and PHPUnit

Introduction

This chapter will kick off with an introduction to getting a Drupal 8 site installed and running. We will walk through the interactive installer that most will be familiar with from previous versions of Drupal, and from the command line with Drush.

Once we have installed a standard Drupal 8 site, we will cover the basics of extending Drupal. We will discuss using distributions and installing contributed projects, such as modules and themes. We will also include uninstalling modules, ...

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