Drupal 8 Module Development: Build and customize Drupal 8 modules and extensions efficiently

I am surprised that this has not gotten more reviews. I have not found another book that is as thorough and in-depth about how Drupal 8 works. It goes over custom module development, as the title implies, but it also goes into depth about how the internals of Drupal 8 work as well. Many improvements have been made to the internals of Drupal 8, but it is difficult to know many of them unless you have a text like this to guide you. I liken this book to what Pro Drupal Development by John Van Dyke was for Drupal 6. Reading through Van Dyke's book was what gave me the ability to actually create custom Drupal 6 modules. This book is doing that for me for Drupal 8. The only criticism that I would have is that it would be nice to have more details about how to use the Drupal console to create custom modules and plugins. That may be too much of a moving target, but in practical terms just getting the basic modules and plugins to be generated with Drupal console can be a confidence boost and provide some understanding from the immediate feedback of the basic custom code.I highly recommend this book if you really want to understand what is going in with Drupal 8 and/or intend to do any custom programming.

Excellent is an understatement. This book is allowing me to get up to speed on Drupal 8 development at least 10X faster than if I had to sort through all the Drupal 8 documentation on my own. The book is my train into a big Drupal territory. If you need to develop in version 8 and you need to get fast track information on how to do it well, fast, this is the book for you. The book vastly flattens out the early part of Drupal 8's learning curve for those without a lot of experience with it. I would buy it again for sure.

Great content. Exactly what I was looking for. HORRIBLY EDITED! I've found the occasional annoying typo, like the word latter instead of ladder. But then there are code typos. The kind that cause you to take 3 hours to debug a 30 minute exercise. I'm 34 pages in and rather frustrated. Next time please find an editor that will review your grammar and beta test your code.

Throughly conceived, and brilliantly executed. A really good resource for an in-depth look at Drupal 8's many aspects. Use it for reference all the time.

This is a very in-depth and useful book, but it is let down by some poor editing of the included code examples, leading to hard to find bugs and requiring a crash course in xdebug to track them down. A comparison of the code in the book and the code in the github repository reveals the occasional missing use statement or typo which will cause subtle bugs and much hair tearing. See ImporterForm.php in the importer plugins section for an example of a missing use statement in the book code that is present in the github version. On the plus side I learnt a lot about debugging PHP while working through the book, but I presume this wasn't the explicit intention of the author. The book has a rushed and slightly sloppy feel about it.

Great book if you want to learn Drupal8.

Good book

Le contenu de ce livre est dense, les exemples sont intéressants.Il apporte un vrai plus par rapport à la documentation disponible sur le web.

Very good book for Drupal developers.