Drupal comes with many capabilities for handling and manipulating files and images and has been adding to its toolset more and more with recent versions. Of course, this is not to say that media management has not been always a pain point for Drupal developers. In Drupal 7, a complicated suite of contributed modules was needed to achieve a basic level of functionality, something that users of "competitors" like WordPress enjoy out of the box. In Drupal 8, there is more emphasis placed on media management, however much of the work is still in the contributed sphere. But due to the new way Drupal development will work, it's expected that much of this effort will find its way into the core system with future versions.
In this chapter, we will look at how we can work with files and images in Drupal, supported by the core features. We are...
