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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


While we revisited some common theming techniques, we also learned a few new ones. Slowly and methodically dissecting each section of our mockup, we walked through creating Twig templates, and worked with the new Comment field and a lot more to create a fully functional Blog detail page. We definitely covered a lot of material, so let's review everything we covered before moving on to the next chapter:

  • We started by reviewing the Blog Detail mockup to identify key areas of our website that we would need to recreate.

  • We familiarized ourselves with additional node templates and learned how to theme the default display of our Post content type.

  • We dug a little deeper into the new Comment type and learned how to best manage the various Twig templates it provides. This included managing user profile pictures for each comment thread and configuring date and time formats for the comment created date.

  • Finally, we implemented social sharing buttons using our themes octo.libraries.yml file, attaching...