Pathauto is a module that allows you to create patterns for your URLs. For example you can set it to show all the articles URLs to something like `articles/date/name-of-article` instead of `node/12` , which is not very human readable as you can imagine.

Pathauto is one of those modules that is on most popular modules lists for years. I'm surprised that it still didn't make it's way into the core. Well, maybe in Drupal 9...

In this episode of Drupal 8 Theming tutorial I'm going to show you how to use Pathauto module to create pretty URLs for your site.

Pathauto

Drush enables you to make actions that would take many clicks in Drupal administration much quicker by making them available to you via command line.

So instead of going to Configuration > Performance and then clicking "Clear Cache" button you can just write `drush cc` and be done with it in seconds. But also you can download and install modules, you can update modules, you can even make the complete backup of your sites files and database by just doing `drush ard`.

As you can imagine it's an invaluable tool if you are doing Drupal development and it's going to make your workflow much quicker.

I'm am using vagrant box for development in this video so if you want to use it for your own development you can check out [these videos](http://watch-learn.com/series/local-development-with-vagrant/).

In this Drupal 8 Theming tutorial we are going to take a look at Drush, a command line interface for Drupal.

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