Mastering Drupal 8 Development 

Trainer: Jesus Manuel Olivas.Drupal/Symfony Trainer and Consultant at weKnow, Drupal Console co-maintainer, and enthusiast of FOSS technologies with special interest in PHP community mostly Drupal and Symfony.Working with Drupal since 2009 and developing Symfony Applications since 2012.Three times DrupalCon Speaker.Participated as an instructor at three DrupalCon training in Austin, Amsterdam and Los Angeles.

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This training will provide an introduction to the most important changes for developers in Drupal 8, allowing students to practice Drupal OOP while at the same time providing a solid knowledge of the process of build modules for Drupal 8.
During the workshop, students will create a custom module and other components by using various APIs, plugins, and hooks.
By the end of the training, students will have a better understanding of Drupal 8 and how the introduction of Symfony components change the way modules should be written.
Learning Objectives
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<LI>Understanding the basic concepts and new best practices included in Drupal 8 module development process.</LI>
<LI>Learning the basic tools that can be used to create Drupal 8 modules including a code editor and Drupal Console.</LI>
<LI>Mastering the fundamentals of the HTTP request/response lifecycle.</LI>
<LI>Understanding the new Drupal subsystems</LI>
<LI>Mastering the new development workflow using Composer</LI>
</UL>
Syllabus/Agenda
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<LI>Install Drupal 8</LI>
<LI>Using Composer to manage project dependencies</LI>
<LI>Creating a custom Module</LI>
<LI>Creating a custom Page Including Route and Controller</LI>
<LI>Rendering a Twig Template</LI>
<LI>Creating a Config Form Integrated with Configuration Management</LI>
<LI>Creating a Block (Plugin)</LI>
<LI>Creating a Service</LI>
<LI>Debugging available Services in Drupal 8</LI>
<LI>Using dependency injection in custom Modules</LI>
<LI>Create an event subscriber</LI>
<LI>Overriding settings and configurations</LI>
<LI>Managing configuration changes through the CLI</LI>
<LI>Using Git to manage code and configuration changes</LI>
</UL>
Who Will Gain the Most From This Training?
Any PHP developer with or without experience in Drupal, regardless of his seniority, will learn how to take advance of their background to create Drupal 8 applications in a faster and efficient way.
Prerequisites for this Course
<UL>
<LI>Previous PHP coding experience</LI>
<LI>OOP experience would be desired, but not mandatory</LI>
<LI>Comfortable working with CLI tools</LI>
</UL>
Dev Environments:
We highly recommend download and configure a Virtual Machine using the project http://drupalvm.com, this project provides a full environment with all tools preconfigured to be used in this training.
Important
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<LI>The training will be split into two days, specifically mornings of May 9 and 10.</LI>
<LI>A link to join the training will be sent 24 hours prior the training date.</LI>
</UL>

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