Drupal Onboarding Exercises

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English - Ελληνικά / Greek

What is this repository?

It contains a series of tasks essential for someone who wants to get started with Drupal.
If you are working on these tasks as part of an interview/hiring process, your work will be reviewed, and you will receive feedback on best practices, correct, and incorrect points, regardless of the hiring outcome!

Usage Instructions

• Completing all tasks (without the asterisk-marked ones) is feasible within 2 working days (16 hours) for an entry-level developer working with Drupal for the first time
• Git knowledge is a prerequisite
• The use of DDEV is mandatory
• Tasks marked with an asterisk (*) are considered advanced level, or very advanced

Drupal Site Building Tasks

• Fork this repository and commit/push to your fork (use your judgment on when to commit)
• Set up Drupal locally (using DDEV)
• Perform a standard installation
• Track your codebase with Git (be mindful of what to track!)
• Create a merge/pull request with your changes to the original GitLab repo
• Set the configuration export folder to ../config/sync
• Install Drush
• Export the configuration and commit it to Git (do this regularly!)
• Create a content type called vehicle
• Add fields: release date (date) and price (float)
• Install the open-source theme named bartik
• Create a View displaying vehicles in a table sorted by release date
• Add an exposed filter to the View to show vehicles newer than a user-specified date
• Add images to the content type (bonus point if done with media)
• Add taxonomy terms to the content type for the brand (e.g., Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren) in a brand vocabulary

Frontend Drupal Tasks

• Create a subtheme of bartik
• Override the content type's template
• * Create a Single Directory Component and map it to the vehicle content type

Backend Drupal Tasks

• Create a custom module that returns a 404 error for any vehicle with a release date in 2020

Drupal Migrations

The following tasks may require over 30 hours for an entry-level developer.

• * Migrate a dataset (at least 5 items, titles only) from the JSON API of stapi.co or swapi.dev
• * Enrich your migration with at least 3 fields
• * One of the fields should be a multi-value reference field

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Credits

• Implementation, development, and updates: Bill Seremetis (Drupal profile)