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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 taxonomy page

Taxonomies play an important role in Drupal data modeling, as they are used to categorize other entities (such as nodes or media). For every taxonomy term, Drupal provides a route that renders the full display mode of the term itself.

You may have noticed that we’ve tagged every trip with terms that come from two vocabularies, Duration and Level. The Duration vocabulary contains terms that indicate the duration of a trip, such as 1 Day or 5 Days. The Level vocabulary contains terms about the difficulty of the trip itself, such as Easy or Difficult. Every time we print those terms (i.e., on the Home page or the Trips page), we render them as a link that points to a page with the details of the term itself. The page for the Difficult term from the Level vocabulary looks like this:

Figure 10.3 – The page for the Difficult term

Figure 10.3 – The page for the Difficult term

By using WebProfiler or inspecting the source code, we can discover that in the main content...