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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 explored how Drupal builds a page in every aspect. Starting from how to define a template and moving all the way to how to use it to render a section of a page, we’ve built our first controller action.

We then saw how controllers and blocks are used to populate the regions of a theme.

You then learned how to attach CSS and JavaScript files to a template by defining and using a library.

Finally, we also discovered how to render the output of a controller action in a dialog by loading its content with an AJAX call and without writing a single line of JavaScript.

Now that you know how the internals work and the Drupal render pipeline doesn't hold any secrets, we can start styling the demo website. In Chapter 4, Mapping the Design to Drupal Components, we'll analyze materials provided by the design team to see how it fits in our Drupal site.