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Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

By : Luca Lusso
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Book Image

Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

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By: Luca Lusso

Overview of this book

Working with themes in Drupal can be challenging, given the number of layers and APIs involved. Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development helps you explore the new Drupal 10’s theme layer in depth. With a fully implemented Drupal website on the one hand and a set of Storybook components on the other, you’ll begin by learning to create a theme from scratch to match the desired final layout. Once you’ve set up a local environment, you’ll get familiarized with design systems and learn how to map them to the structures of a Drupal website. Next, you’ll bootstrap your new theme and optimize Drupal’s productivity using tools such as webpack, Tailwind CSS, and Browsersync. As you advance, you’ll delve into all the theme layers in a step-by-step way, starting from how Drupal builds an HTML page to where the template files are and how to add custom CSS and JavaScript. You’ll also discover how to leverage all the Drupal APIs to implement robust and maintainable themes without reinventing the wheel, but by following best practices and methodologies. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to build a fully decoupled website using json:api and Next.js. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently build custom Drupal themes to deliver state-of-the-art websites and keep ahead of the competition in the modern frontend world.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Styling Drupal
12
Part 2 – Advanced Topics
17
Part 3 – Decoupled Architectures

Editorial blocks

We saw in previous chapters how to style blocks that contain a menu, a view, or are provided by some internal modules.

But one of the most useful features of the block system is that it provides editorial blocks that an administrator can place on theme regions based on some visibility rules.

Editorial blocks work more or less like nodes. They have block types (bundles), fields, and revisions. The main differences are that a block doesn’t have a URL and it’s rendered on one or more routes based on some visibility rules.

Note:

The Drupal core module that provides editorial blocks has block_content as the machine name, but Custom Block as the human-readable name. Block types are called custom block types.

The demo website has one custom block type defined, called banner, which can be used to provide advertising banners (you can find the list of custom block types here: http://packt.ddev.site/admin/structure/block-content). The banner custom...