Welcome to DrupalX

Hey, how are you, great to have you here! The Extension Framework for Drupal (as you can see, we're usually just calling it "DrupalX" because we like to keep things short) is a framework that sits on top of Drupal and tries to make life easier for Web developers - helping them to create websites more efficiently. It is in no way affiliated with Drupal itself but a totally separate thing. Although it is released under the same open source license (GPL2) as Drupal. In fact, this is even required by Drupal's license if you distribute your module publicly. We're happy to oblige.

DrupalX is our contribution to the community and we hope it will make using Drupal for building your website a more enjoyable and less frustrating experience. And... We eat our own dogfood: This website (and many more we've created since the release of Drupal 8) is built with DrupalX!

Still interested? OK, let's start by answering the 3 big questions first - and, no, the answer isn't 42 this time:

Why? How? What?

Key concepts

Now that we've got you hooked, we can start with some key concepts you should know. You will understand some features of DrupalX much better if you are aware of them:

API guidelines Single namespace Field name mapping Cardinality detection Scalar value extraction Auto-dereferencing Paragraph-only layout HTML Transformation Rerouting

Twig extensions

Introduction Multi-line statements Statement comments Field access operators Merge operator Dump statement/filter Static call operator Singleton operator Regular expressions Decoding filters Mail extension Cache statement

Class library (API)