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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

Conclusions

To stay up to date with the latest concepts and techniques, I recommend monitoring the official documentation page at https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/theming-drupal/using-single-directory-components.

Please remember that the topic we discussed in this chapter is relatively new, so some of the tutorials and documentation you may find online could be outdated as things change quickly. The SDC module, which has been added to Drupal core, is based on the initial work done in the Component Libraries: Components contributed module (https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_components), but the code and features may not be exactly the same, particularly in the version added in Drupal 10.1 (for example, component versions are not available in SDC). Also, remember that the SDC module is experimental, meaning some implementations may change without support for backward compatibility.

The component implementation provided by SDC in Drupal core lays the foundation for a more consistent...