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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 our HTML wrapper


In order to start addressing the markup of our homepage, we need to look at creating our first Twig template. The html.html.twig template is a little different than most templates, as it contains the basic structure or wrapper for a Drupal page that the rest of our templates will inherit. This template contains your standard HTML5 markup containing html, head, title, and body elements along with any other variables that Drupal 8 needs to output content.

We can begin by navigating to core/modules/system/templates and copying the html.html.twig Twig template to our themes/octo/templates folder. One thing to keep in mind as we start working with the Twig templates is that we will always copy a template from core to our themes folder to ensure that we don't accidentally modify any core files.

Next, we can open html.html.twig and review the markup in our editor. We have the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html{{ html_attributes }}>
  <head>
    <head...