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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Working with libraries


While Drupal 8 ships with some improvements to its default CSS and JavaScript libraries, we will generally find ourselves wishing to add additional third-party libraries that can enhance the function and feel of our website. In our case, we have decided to add Twitter Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com), which provides us with a responsive CSS framework and JavaScript library that utilizes a component-based approach to theming.

The process involves three steps:

  1. First is downloading or installing the assets that make up the framework or library.
  2. Second is adding library entries that point to our assets.
  3. Finally, we will need to add a library reference to our twiggy.info.yml file.

Adding assets

We can easily add the Twitter Bootstrap framework assets by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#download.
  2. Click on the Download Bootstrap button.
  3. Extract the ZIP file.

  1. Copy the contents of the bootstrap folder to our /themes/twiggy folder, keeping...