Get full access to Drupal 8 Module Development and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Version control

Any software development needs to happen through a version controlled environment. By now, Drupal is universally using Git. So, you should make sure that you have Git installed locally, even if just to be able to check out the code examples we write in this book, which will be hosted on GitHub.

Get Drupal 8 Module Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now