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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Theming and Frontend Development

Theming is the process through which we can affect the output of entities (nodes, users, taxonomy terms, media, and so on) with CSS, JavaScript, Twig templates, and HTML. Drupal comes with a handful of out-of-the-box themes to provide a basic look and feel after you install it. Olivero is the default site theme in Drupal 10 and Claro provides the administration theme.

There are numerous options available on Drupal.org that either provide a starting point for your own theme (Bootstrap, ZURB Foundation, or Barrio, for example) or a full ready-to-use solution. It is also possible to create your own custom theme from scratch.

Everything you see on the screen after a page has loaded in Drupal has gone through the theming and rendering pipeline. This means that you can customize the theme that you see and control its markup and styling. Understanding how Drupal theming works will make you a more effective developer and this chapter will help you do...