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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

4.2 (10)
By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
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Chapter 1. Setting Up Our Development Environment

Regardless of you being a seasoned web developer or someone who is just about to start learning Drupal, there are few things that everybody needs to have in place before we can get started:

  • First, is to make sure that we have an Application stack that will meet Drupal 8's system requirements. MAMP provides us with a standalone web server that is generally referred to as an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and is available for both OS X and Windows. We will look at installing and configuring this local web server in preparation to install Drupal 8.
  • Second, is to set up a Drupal 8 instance and learn the process of installing Drupal instances into our AMP stack. There are a few changes on how the configuration and installation processes work in Drupal 8, so we will take a closer look to ensure that we all begin development from the same starting point.
  • Third, we will be reviewing the Admin interface, including the new responsive Admin menu and any configuration changes that have been made as we navigate to familiar sections of our site. We will also look at how to extend our website using contributed modules, review changes to the files and folder structure that make up Drupal 8, and discuss best practices to manage your files.
  • Finally, we will review the exercise files that we will be using throughout the series, including how to download and extract files, how to use phpMyAdmin—a database administration tool to back up and restore database snapshots—and how to inspect elements within our HTML structure using Google Chrome.

Let's get started by installing our web environment that we will be using as we take an exciting look at Drupal 8 theming with Twig.

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