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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

Styling the maintenance page

When you need to perform a massive update to your website, it’s a good practice to put it in maintenance mode.

Drupal allows you to enable maintenance mode and provide a custom message to show to your customers:

Figure 10.1 – The form to configure and enable maintenance mode

Figure 10.1 – The form to configure and enable maintenance mode

The URL of the configuration page shown in Figure 10.1 is /admin/config/development/maintenance. Here, you can enable maintenance mode and set a message. The message text only allows plain strings, and the only dynamic part is @site, which will be replaced with the name of the site (as configured on /admin/config/system/site-information).

Suggestions for the maintenance page are as follows:

  • maintenance-page--offline.html.twig: Used when the site is offline due to some internal error, such as a broken database connection
  • maintenance-page--front.html.twig: Used for the front page of the site and also for pages such as update...