Out-of-the-box Drupal Building

Drupal gained popularity as a low/no-code tool given its backend could readily be configured to meet a large number of common cases. A third persona of Drupal developer, beyond a backend or frontend developer, is known as a site builder. The site building activity is the combination of Drupal configuration and selection of community-provided modules to achieve the goals of an application. Modules often come with their own configuration as well. This is not an exercise of developing code but assembling existing capabilities that have been built by the community culminating in the desired intent of the Drupal application.

Developer Classification

Drupal system concepts of front-end and backend have corresponding development practices. Front-end development is considered working on Drupal themes (CSS, Twig templates, lightweight PHP) or building JavaScript-based integrations. Backend development typically refers to PHP and harnessing Drupal’...