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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

Walking through the design mockup


Whether we are working for a digital agency or simply freelancing, in most cases, we will already have purchased a theme or designed one from scratch that has been built in pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Having a theme already available to us makes our job as a frontend developer much easier in identifying what needs to be built. As we begin to review each page of our design, we will be taking notes about specific functionality that we will later revisit when creating our new theme. We will clearly point out such items as regions, page layouts, blocks of content, and how we would best implement CSS and JavaScript.

Homepage layout

If we haven't already done so, let's open up the homepage of our mockup, as shown in the following image, and navigate as any other user visiting our site would.

At first glance, our mockup seems to contain some very standard components, such as a header with a logo, menu, full page slider, and some social network icons. However,...