Module Builder#

Module Builder is a Drupal module which creates code for Drupal modules. Module Builder provides an interface in your Drupal site’s admin area, which guides you through a series of forms to set the components for your module and their options, and then write the code files. You can write a new module from scratch, or add components to an existing module.

The options for your module are stored in Drupal configuration, as a config entity, so you can return to your module’s options and add or change things, and then re-generate the updated parts of the code.

Module Builder is analytical: it analyses your codebase to discover what different components are available to build. For example, it will offer hooks and plugins based on the hooks and plugin types that are found in your site’s code.

Module Builder is adaptive: the forms that show options for the module are dynamically generated from a schema defined in the Drupal Code Builder library. New releases of Drupal Code Builder will often cause Module Builder to show new options in its forms.

Coding standards#

Module Builder’s code generating library has an extensive suite of tests, which verify that all generated code complies to Drupal Coding Standards.