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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

Styling menus

In Drupal, menus are used to navigate the site and provide you with the perception that the system has pages arranged in a filesystem-like structure. Every menu has a machine name and you can manage it using the Structure | Menu section of the administration (/admin/structure/menu).

Every time a new menu is created, using the administrative interface of Drupal, the System module creates a new block type as well. Then, using the Block layout form, we place an instance of that menu block in a region.

Menus are rendered by the menu theme hook and a suggestion is defined by default to allow us to provide a different template for different menus.

Note

You can use a render array to enforce which suggestion to select by using its name in the #theme key. For example, the block that exposes the main menu uses menu__main for the #theme key. If the suggested file doesn’t exist, Drupal falls back to the base theme hook (menu, in this case).

For the main menu...