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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 (17 chapters)

Summary


In the last two chapters on Mastering Drupal 8 Theming, we covered a lot of material. To state that it is just the beginning of all that you can learn about the theming layer would be an understatement. We have only just touched the surface, but hopefully it is enough to spark your interest in taking a longer look at what can be accomplished with Drupal.

Let's review what we covered in this chapter. We began with setting up our local environment for theming, including enabling Twig debugging. From there, we quickly looked at Twig fundamentals that allowed us to inspect, set, and print Twig variables. Finally, we touched on a handful of Twig templates and worked with library assets to use Twitter Bootstrap to build a Jumbotron.

Next, we will be taking a look at extending Drupal.