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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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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

Working with Local Tasks


One of the most common content blocks within Drupal 8 that is often forgotten about when creating a theme is Local Tasks, often referred to as Tabs. We can see an example of the Tabs block whenever a user needs to perform some sort of action, such as viewing and editing a Node, or even when logging in to Drupal. If we make sure that we are logged out of Drupal Admin and then navigate to /user/login, we will see the Log in and Reset your password links that make up the tabs on the user login page:

If we input our admin credentials and log in to our Drupal instance we will see that the local tasks menu changes to display View, Shortcuts, and Edit links. The local tasks menu will change, based on the type of page we are on and the permissions that each user has been assigned.

If we navigate to the About Us page located at /about, we will see that our local tasks menu now provides us with the ability to View, Edit, or Delete the current Node.

Now that we have a better understanding...