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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

Summary


We have covered a lot of information surrounding the administration of themes in Drupal 8. So, let's recap exactly what we have covered so far:

  • We answered the question, "What is a theme?"

  • We took an in-depth look at the Appearance interface and how we can use it to install, uninstall, and configure settings, including toggling the display of certain page elements.

  • We learned how to work with the logo image settings and shortcut icon settings that can be configured for themes.

  • We worked with prebuilt themes and learned where to find them, how to install them using the Drupal admin, and manually using a theme archive.

  • Finally, we took a detailed look at blocks and regions, including how to configure blocks and control their appearance using the new custom blocks layout to add additional fields and view modes.

In the next chapter, we will begin dissecting a theme. This includes taking a look at the file and folder structure of a theme, configuration management, and what makes up a core theme...