Track: 
Development & Performance
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Every modern framework nowadays provides a scaffolding tool code generator for speeding up the process of starting a new project and avoid the repetitive tasks.

The purpose of this session is to build a module through a live demo and show how to take advantage of the Symfony Console Component to provide a CLI tool to automate the creation of Drupal 8 modules by generating the directory structure for a module, controllers, forms, services, plugins and required configuration files.

Topics included on the session:

- Composer
- YAML
- Namespaces
- Dependency Injection
- Annotations
- Routing
- Controller

By the end of this session you will learn how:
- Setting up a local environment for Drupal 8 using a Virtual Machine.
-- https://github.com/hechoendrupal/drupal8.dev

- Building modules for Drupal 8.
-- https://github.com/hechoendrupal/DrupalAppConsole

Session slides
http://jmolivas.com/slides/fldc14/introducing-drupal-8-console-scaffoldi...

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