Drupal 8 hook_update() Tricks
9 minute read Published: Author: Derek Laventure
In Drupal 7, hook_update()/hook_install() were well-established mechanisms
for manipulating the database when installing a new site or updating an
existing one. Most of these routines ended up directly running SQL against the
database, where all kinds of state, configuration, and content data lived. This worked
reasonably well if you were careful and had a good knowledge of how the
database schema fit together, but things tended to get complicated.
With the maturing of Features module, we were …