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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

Styling the Header and the Footer

In this chapter, we’ll start to use the components from the design system to style the header and the footer of the demo website.

You will learn more about how regions are used to manage the layout and how blocks are used to provide the content that surrounds the main page content. You will also learn how to provide a custom version of every template used by Drupal and how to suggest a specific template based on the context of a page.

We’ll talk about how menus are used in Drupal and how to style them. Finally, we’ll see how to provide more variables to templates not owned by us by preprocessing them.

By the end of this chapter, our demo website will have a fully styled header and footer and you will have learned how to map a Drupal template to a component from the design system.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Regions and blocks
  • How to override a template
  • Template suggestions
  • ...