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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

Chapter 3. Dissecting a Theme

Drupal 8 provides us, as developers and designers, with a unique opportunity to change the appearance of the output content. We have the ability to manage the configuration from the admin user interface as well as work with the actual templates and variables that output the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. To get a better understanding, we will take a look at dissecting a theme, as we cover the following:

  • Having a proper development environment is important when working with themes, so we will take a look at the steps involved in configuring our local environment.

  • Next, we will compare the similarities and differences between core default themes and custom themes while looking at how configuration has changed in Drupal 8 with the introduction of the info.yml file.

  • Being able to breakdown how the metadata of the info.yml works in conjunction with general information, libraries, and regions will ensure that we have a better understanding of Drupal's theme configuration...