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Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel
Book Image

Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most popular platforms with which to develop websites. With more and more organizations looking to build engaging digital experience for their stakeholders, the Drupal Content Management System offers a mobile-first platform with native support for integrations, better performance, and scalability. The new version brings significant changes to its module development and theme creation techniques, improving performance and refining the development experience.</p> <p>This book will help you develop your own website using Drupal 8 in a step-by-step manner. You’ll start off by setting up your development environment, enabling you to begin writing custom code for a Drupal-powered website through PHPStorm. You will learn about configuration management and creating custom content types before exploring the HTML5 features included with Drupal 8.</p> <p>You will then get familiar with Drupal 8’s mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG and in-line editing capabilities of Drupal 8, and enhance the overall authoring experience. Later, you will create and enhance a Media Entity Lightbox module, before taking an in-depth look at the Views module.</p> <p>We then cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. Finally, you will explore and configure the built-in support for REST and extend its support by installing the RESTful module. By the end of the book, you will have created a recipe sharing website while gaining a solid understanding of development best practices for Drupal 8.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a sub-theme


What we need to do is set up a theme to inherit the benefits we get from our chosen theme, that we can then adjust to suit our needs. This is called a sub-theme. Let's get started, using Bartik as the parent theme.

Back in PhpStorm, in the root directory of your project, navigate to the themes directory. Right now this directory is empty apart from a README file. We'll first create a directory to place our sub-theme in. It is good practice to place your own themes in a folder named custom, and any contributed themes in a sub folder named contrib (more on contributed themes later). Inside the newly created custom folder, we'll begin creating our sub-theme. We need to follow a few naming rules: it must start with a letter and only use lowercase alphanumerics and underscores. We're going to call ours recipes:

  1. Create a directory named recipes.

  2. Inside that, we'll define our theme. If you've worked with Drupal 7 previously, you may be used to working with the...