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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’ve seen how to define new custom functions and filters for Twig, and how to use them in our template.

You also learned about all the functions and filters provided by Drupal core and by some famous contrib modules.

The most important takeaway of this chapter is that you must put the business logic of your Drupal website as far as possible from the theme layer. This is the only way to build a maintainable and future-proof system, where you can switch the frontend theme without affecting the site features and functionality at all. A Drupal theme must only be responsible for taking some data structures (that is, render arrays) and turning them into HTML.

In the next chapter, Chapter 13, Making a Theme Configurable, we’ll talk about how to build a theme that can be adapted to be used on multiple websites, with some little (or big) differences.