Summary

In this chapter, we looked at Views from all sorts of module developer-oriented angles. We saw how we can expose our product entity type to Views. That was a breeze. But then, we also saw how our custom player and team data from Chapter 8, The Database API, can be exposed to Views. Even if we did have to write some code for that, much of it was quite boilerplate, as we were able to leverage the existing Views plugin ecosystem for almost everything we wanted. However, since these are all plugins, we also saw how we can create our own field, filter, and argument plugins to handle those exceptional cases in which what exists may not be enough.

Closely tied to this, we also talked a bit about altering the way other modules expose their data to Views. The most notable example here was the ability to easily add more fields (and plugins) to entity-based Views in order to enrich them with custom functionalities.

Finally, we talked a bit about how we can approach the theming aspect...