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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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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

Summary


Let's give ourselves a big pat on the back. We learned a lot of new techniques for theming Drupal 8 in this chapter and our Blog listing page looks great. Quite a few different techniques were covered in a short period of time. We adopted best practices for theming different sections of our page, which will be used in almost any theme we create. Let's take a moment to recap what we have accomplished in this chapter:

  • We began by reviewing our Blog Listing mockup to identify the key areas of our website that we will need to recreate.

  • We learned how to effectively use Display modes to manage our content types fields, including how to hide labels and use field formatters.

  • Field level Twig templates came in handy for modifying individual field markup, adding classes, using filters, and checking for multiple field items.

  • Twitter Bootstrap gave us the flexibility to add slideshows and tabbed interfaces to our page content.

  • We took a deeper look at using preprocessing and creating a *.theme file...