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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

Reviewing the Blog detail mockup


In order to assist us in identifying page elements we will be recreating for the Blog detail page, it would make sense to open up our mockup and review the layout and structure. The Blog page can be found in the Mockup folder located in our exercise files. Begin by opening up the blog-detail.html file within the browser, as shown in the following image:

The Blog detail mockup looks very similar to the Blog listing page, with the exception of a few new areas that were not present before:

  • First, we have replaced the teaser content with the full content of the post.

  • Second, we now have a new section below our main content that lists any comment threads, with a photo of the comment's author.

  • Third, we have a comment form that allows users to leave their name, a subject, and a comment for each post.

Having identified these three different components, we can now take a quick look at what our Blog detail page currently looks like and discuss the best way to tackle each...