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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

Splitting mockups into components

Under the 05-pages folder inside storybook/stories, you can find a set of pages that we need to style on our website. All those pages already exist in the demo website; our job as frontend developers is to identify how they have been implemented and how to provide our custom HTML and CSS.

The home page

The home page, like any other page of the website, has a header and a footer.

On the header, we’ll find the website logo, the main menu, and the user menu.

On the footer, there is the name of the site, two sets of links that come from the Follow us and the Legal menus, a copyright notice, and some social media icons.

The main content of the page is composed of three components:

  • A slider
  • A set of three cards
  • A list of media items, displayed in two columns
Figure 4.7 – The home page

Figure 4.7 – The home page

Here are the components used on the home page :

  • Header (with Logo, Menu, MenuItem, and...