When Drupal Console was first introduced, one of the biggest highlights was its ability to scaffold code. The project has turned into a much larger Drupal runner over the command-line interface, but much of its resourcefulness is code generation.
As you may have noted in the previous chapters and recipes, there can be a few mundane tasks and a bit of boilerplate code. Drupal Console enables Drupal developers to create various components without having to write all of the boilerplate code.
In Chapter 10, The Entity API, we covered the creation of a custom entity type. In this recipe, we will automate most of that process using Drupal Console to generate our content entity.
