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Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

By : Luca Lusso
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Book Image

Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

4 (1)
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

How to create a component with SDC

SDC is a directory with some files inside. You can create everything you need by hand or leverage a Drush command provided by the Component Libraries: Generator (cl_generator, https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_generator) contributed module.

Note

At the time of writing, there are two versions of the cl_generator module – be sure to install version 2, which is compatible with SDC from Drupal core. There are also plans to move the generator directly inside Drush; look at the project page at drupal.org to check for the latest on this.

Open a terminal and type the following command to start the generation wizard:

ddev drush generate theme:sdc:component

Work through the questions and provide answers to generate a component with these values:

  • Location: theme
  • Machine name of the theme: alps_trips
  • Components directory: components (the default, and with SDC, the only valid value)
  • Component machine name: at-button
  • ...