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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

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how to style some pages that Drupal provides by default, such as the maintenance page and the error pages.

You also learned that for every taxonomy term that has been defined, Drupal provides, by default, a view that shows the term fields, along with a list of every node tagged with the term itself.

Finally, we also talked about Search. Most sites have this feature and the best way to implement it is by using the Search API module. We added a new display mode to our content types and styled it, along with the view that lists the search results.

With this chapter, we’ve completed the styling of the demo website; every page and section is now ready to be deployed in production. In the next four chapters, we’ll talk about some advanced topics, including providing custom filters and functions for Twig and how to make a configurable theme.