Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.
Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.
Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line
Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell
Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features
Table of Contents
Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
Chapter 2. Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands
Chapter 3. Installing Drush
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control
Part II: Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier
Chapter 5. Using Features in Your Workflow
Chapter 6. Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles
