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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

Manually installing a theme


In order to manually install a theme, we will need a copy of the archive downloaded to our local machine. Start by navigating to the Drupal Theme project page and locate the Drupal 8 theme named Neato. Neato is based on the Neat grid system and is part of the Bourbon Sass framework.

Click on the tar.gz or zip file next to the 8.x version of the theme to initiate the download. Next, we need to locate the tar or zipped file on our machine and extract the contents of the file. We should now have a theme folder named neato.

In order for Drupal 8 to recognize a new theme, all we need to do is copy the theme into the themes directory inside our Drupal 8 installation, as shown in the following image:

Our themes folder should now contain three themes. Two of the themes are installed through the Drupal admin and the third is manually placed. As long as a Drupal 8 theme is configured properly, simply placing it into the themes folder will allow it to be found by the Drupal...