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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

Creating a Bootstrap starter


Having an example or mockup that we can refer to when creating a starter theme is always helpful. So, to get the most out of our Twitter Bootstrap starter, let's browse http://getbootstrap.com/examples/jumbotron/ where we will see an example of a homepage layout:

As we take a look at the mockup, we can see that the layout consists of two rows of content with the first row containing a large callout known as a Jumbotron. The second row contains three featured blocks of content. The remaining typography and components are taking advantage of the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework to display the content.

One advantage of integrating the Twitter Bootstrap framework into our starter theme is that our markup will be responsive in nature. It means that as the browser window is resized, the content will scale down accordingly. At smaller resolutions, the three columns will stack on top of one another enabling the user to view the content easier on smaller devices.

We will...