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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Themes included in Drupal 8


When you install Drupal 8, there are a three themes that are included. These can be classified as:

  • Accessible via the UI

  • Base themes

Accessible via the UI

These themes are accessible via the user interface.

Bartik

The default Drupal frontend theme, this will be active for all content pages when Drupal is initially installed. It is in fact a subtheme of Classy—that is, it is based on or "built on top of" the Classy theme.

Seven

This is the default backend/admin theme. This can also be set as the default frontend theme, but it is really designed to be the common administration theme. This too is a subtheme of Classy.

Stark

This is a very minimal theme that includes the smallest amount of HTML markup and styling. Unlike Bartik and Seven, this theme is not built on top of anything and shows off the raw HTML markup that comes out of modules. As such, it's useful to developers to determine whether module-related CSS and JavaScript are interfering with a more complex theme.

Base...