Eric Sod, Senior Consultant, presented at the NYC Drupal Meetup on February 4th, featuring a tool he's helping to build for Drupal 8, The Console. The Console is designed to help folks quickly build modules for Drupal 8.

1. The Drupal
Console

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8. The Drupal
Console

9. Speeding up Drupal 8
development using the
Drupal Console

10. The lead developers on the project:
David Flores
Indava
http://dmouse.net/
https://github.com/dmouse
https://github.com/hechoendrupal
Jesus Manuel Olivas
BlinkReaction
http://jmolivas.com
https://github.com/jmolivas
https://github.com/hechoendrupal

11. That’s me, Eric Sod
My contact information is at the end.

12. What is the Drupal Console?

13. The Drupal Console is an effort to bring
the Symfony Console Component
to Drupal 8.

14. The Console is a CLI tool that
automates the creation of Drupal 8
modules and other recurring tasks.

15. Where do I find the project?
Project Landing page
http://drupalconsole.com/
On drupal.org
https://drupal.org/project/console
On github
https://github.com/hechoendrupal/DrupalAppConsole

16. How about docs and help?
Documentation at @gitbook
http://hechoendrupal.gitbooks.io/drupal-console/
Please RTFM and then ping us at @gitter
https://gitter.im/hechoendrupal/DrupalAppConsole

17. Out of the box
• Generates module and info files.
• Generates PSR-4 compliant directory structure for a module.
• Registers routes on YML files and maps to controllers and forms in PHP
Classes.
• Creates classes adding namespaces, uses and also extends and implements
keywords when required.
• Supports adding services using Dependency Injection on class generation.

18. Other Out of the box Commands
• Lists and shows configurations.
• Lists registered services on the service container.
• Lists registered routes on the routing system.
• Rebuilds routing system cache.
• Rebuilds site caches.

19. There are similar projects
Drupal Module Upgrader
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalmoduleupgrader
Module Builder
https://www.drupal.org/project/module_builder
Drupal 8 Tools
https://github.com/anavarre/drupal-8-tools
A code generator for Drupal
https://github.com/danmatthews/drupal-code-generator

20. Unique Qualities of the Console:
• Console takes advantage of the Symfony Console Component.
• Console takes advantage of the Twig Component in order to generate
PHP, YML and other files.
• Console takes advantage of OOP and modern development practices.
• Console has no plans to support previous versions of Drupal.

21. How to Download Console

22. Using the Installer
Install the Console locally by running the installer in your project directory:
$ curl -LSs http://drupalconsole.com/installer | php
To access console from anywhere on your system
$ mv console.phar /usr/local/bin/drupal
You can now execute console using:
$ drupal generate:module

23. Using Composer
You can use composer to install console globally using the following command:
$ composer global require drupal/console:@stable
Add the binary directory to your system path
$ echo "PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin" > ~/.bash_profile
You can now execute console using:
$ console

24. Demo time:
Demos are available at:
http://youtu.be/lpeFcBBIR0s
http://youtu.be/J0w1XWsxxFg

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Thank you
Eric Sod
@EricSod
NorthPoint Digital
esod@northpointdigital.com
http://ericsod.net/
https://github.com/esod