Drupal Console and Drush are two command line (CLI) tools built for Drupal. For a long time Drush was the only CLI tool and it was very useful for managing Drupal sites. Common tasks you’d do with Drush are rebuild caching, installing sites, import/export configuration and so much more.
Then Drupal Console came onto the scene and offered other goodies such as the ability to generate boilerplate code, which Drush 9 can now do as well. People often ask “Can you run Drush and Drupal Console together” and the answer is yes, I personally use both. If you install Drupal using drupal-composer/drupal-project then you get both Drush and Drupal
In the video above, you’ll learn how to use Drush and Drupal Console.
Drupal Console
Drupal Console is a CLI tool for Drupal built using the Symfony Console library. One of its many strengths is the ability to generate boilerplate code. With a few simple commands you can create a module or a custom entity type.
How to Install Drupal Console
Drupal Console can be installed into your Drupal site using Composer, follow the instructions over on the Drupal Console documentation page.
Use the links below to jump to a section of the video:
- Drupal Console intro: 02:31
- How to install Drupal Console: 04:29
- Using Drupal Console launcher: 06:27
- Overview of Drupal Console commands: 07:41
- How to use debug commands: 08:33
- Using debug:router command: 10:11
- Using debug:container command: 11:49
- Using debug:cron command: 15:08
- Using debug:user command: 15:08
- How to use generate commands: 17:15
- Using generate:module command: 18:07
- View module code generated by Drupal Console: 20:42
- Using generate:entity:content command: 20:59
- View code generated by generate:entity:content command: 24:43
- Install module generated by Drupal Console: 27:21
- How to download modules using Drupal Console: 31:10
- Viewer question: What’s composer?: 34:45
Drush
Drush is the original CLI tool for Drupal. You can use it to interact with a Drupal site and generate boilerplate code.
How to Install Drush
Drush is just a PHP library and can be installed using Composer. For details read the Drush install documentation page.
Use the links below to jump to a section of the video:
- Drush intro: 37:22
- How to install Drush: 40:56
- Using Drush: 42:11
- Overview of Drush Commands: 43:00
- Using Drush generate command: 44:11
- Using generate module-content-entity command: 45:12
- View module code generated by Drush: 46:23
- Install module generated by Drush: 47:13
- Overview of common Drush commands: 52:00
Very nice stream. I would be delight if you have the energy and motivation to do more videos, you have a way to expose things that make them simplier, and that’s great.
Cheers !
Thanks.
I do need to find the time for more videos. 🙂