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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

Folder structure and naming conventions


In Drupal 8, the folder structure is changed to make it more logical. Everything that ships with Drupal now resides in a core folder including the default themes, which are now contained within the core/themes folder. However, any themes that we download or develop ourselves now reside within the themes folder.

The folder structure comprises the following:

  • Default themes: These themes reside in the core/themes directory and include Bartik, classy, seven, stable, and stark.

  • Custom themes: These themes reside in the themes directory at the root level of our Drupal installation and will contain any contributed themes or custom themes.

Before we can begin creating our own custom themes, we need to have a better understanding of how themes are configured and exactly how they let Drupal know where to display content and how the content should look.