Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development

Chapter 13. The Drupal CLI

There are two command-line tools for Drupal 8: Console and Drush. In this chapter, we will discuss how they make working with Drupal easier by covering the following recipes:

• Rebuilding cache in Console or Drush
• Using Drush to interact with the database
• Using Drush to manage users
• Scaffolding code through Console
• Making a Drush command
• Making a Console command

Introduction

In the previous chapters of this module, there have been recipes that provide ways of using command-line tools to simplify working with Drupal. There are two contributed projects that provide Drupal with a command-line interface experience.

First, there is Drush. Drush was first created for Drupal 4.7 and has become an integral tool used for day-to-day Drupal ...