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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Tips, Tricks, and Where to Go from Here

Now that we have followed the frontend developer's path of taking a design or mockup and converting it into a working Drupal 8 theme, we have to ask that burning question, what next? The answer to that question depends on the problems we need to solve.

For example, what about theming some more common, but often forgotten, admin sections, such as the local tasks menu or status messages block? How about extending Twig templates to reduce having to manage markup in multiple places? However, the most common question is what about contributed modules that can help us with our theming?

In this final chapter, we will take a look at answering these last-minute questions, as we cover the following:

  • We will begin with cleaning up our theme by adding some additional Twig templates for both the local tasks menu and the status messages block.

  • Next, we will take a look at extending Twig templates by using template inheritance to reduce the amount of markup...