Essential Modules in Drupal 8
Pathauto
The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users)
Requirements Token CTools
8.x-1.8 Released 28 April 2020
ctools
ctools (Chaos Tool Suite (ctools))
Tools to make it easy for modules to let other modules
Download Zip 8.x-3.6 Released 12 May 2021
Token
Provides additional tokens not supported by core (most notably fields), as well as a UI for browsing tokens.
8.x-1.9 Released 18 December 2020
Webform
The Webform module allows you to build any type of form to collect any type of data
Metatag
The Metatag module allows you to automatically provide structured metadata, aka "meta tags", about a website.