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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

Sub-theming

In Drupal, sub-theming refers to the process of creating a new theme that inherits and extends the functionality of an existing base theme. It allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of your Drupal site without modifying the base theme directly. Sub-theming is a powerful technique that enables you to build unique designs while benefiting from the updates and improvements made to the base theme.

The inheritance chain follows a linear path, and each theme can only have one parent theme. The visible markup presented to the user on a page is the outcome of how each theme in this chain modifies the markup received from the preceding theme, with the active theme having the ultimate authority in determining the final markup.

Imagine, for example, that our Alps Trips company became successful, and we opened a French office to manage tours in the French Alps. We want a site with the same content types and configuration but with some differences on the frontend...