Assets in Drupal
Assets are a specific type of digital content. Consider reading about a researcher online. When viewing their biography on a University website, an image shows a picture of them, a list of their publications, which are linked to PDF files, and a video of their latest conference talk is featured. These are all assets.
Assets are a vibrant part of the modern web. Social platforms such as Instagram and YouTube are built around images and videos. The emergence of cameras and cell phones has made digital assets ubiquitous. As such, assets are a large part of digital applications. And, assets are a significant part of Drupal.
Use cases
Assets are one part of the longstanding “trifecta” of Drupal: code, database, and files. Files take on two forms: assets and generated files. Configuration, as an example, is generated by the Drupal application, managed by the runtime database, and persistently stored in files for versioning. Drupal’s caching...
