Common Drupal 8 Drush Commands

It is essential for every Drupal developer to know how to use configure and use Drupal through Drush as it is a very valuable skill.

To get you started, below are some of the most common Drush commands for Drupal 8.

• Clear cache: drush cache-rebuild(To clear all caches) or drush cc (To delete one specific cache)

• Clear cache even when there’s some problem with Drupal: drush sql-query “DELETE FROM cache”
  

• Open SQL command-line interface: drush sql cli

• Print database connection details: drush sql-conf

• String for connection to database: drush sql-connect

• Enable a module: drush en {name_of_module}

• Disable a module: drush dis {name_of_module}

• Update a module: drush up {name_of_module}

• Update Drupal core and themes: drush pm-update drupal

• Check watchdog (logged events): drush ws

• Runserver (PHP’s built-in http server for development): drush runserver

The commands above are the ones we think might come in as most useful. To learn more about Drush and its commands, read the official documentation.