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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788290401
Length 430 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Content Authoring Experience 3. Displaying Content through Views 4. Extending Drupal 5. Frontend for the Win 6. Creating Forms with the Form API 7. Plug and Play with Plugins 8. Multilingual and Internationalization 9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8 10. The Entity API 11. Off the Drupalicon Island 12. Web Services 13. The Drupal CLI

Synchronizing site configurations

A key component for managing a Drupal website is configuration integrity. A key part of maintaining this integrity is ensuring that your configuration changes made in development are pushed upstream to your production environments. Maintaining configuration changes by manually exporting and importing through the user interface can be tedious and does not provide a way to track what has or has not been exported or imported. At the same time, manually writing module hooks to manipulate the configuration can be time-consuming. Luckily, the configuration management solution provides you with the ability to export and import the entire site's configuration.

A site export can only be imported into another copy of itself. Each site must have the same UUID, which is set during its installation. This allows you to export your local development environment...

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