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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 Jumbotron


Many times, a designer will create a section of content that they want to call the users' attention to. This is sometimes known as a Call to Action or a Hero. Bootstrap calls this visual treatment a Jumbotron and makes up the first part of our homepage mockup that we will be creating.

In order for us to implement the Jumbotron, we need to think about how our current homepage is laid out. We have a custom block called Jumbotron placed within the Content region. This means that potentially every page will have this block. Also, every page contains a page title block as well, and based on the mockup, we don't want that to display on our homepage. So, we need to address these two tasks while modifying our page to accommodate the Jumbotron.

First, we will take advantage of Drupal's new default WYSIWYG to directly edit the source HTML. This will allow us to add HTML markup directly into our custom block without worrying about creating a Twig template for it.

Second, we will need...