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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 Content

In this chapter, we’ll explore some ways to style the main content of a page.

First, we’ll discover how content is structured by learning everything about entities, bundles, and fields. Then, we’ll talk about the other entity types usually related to the main content, such as media elements and taxonomy terms.

You’ll learn several methods to structure Drupal’s contents and how to style them to match the design system properly. You’ll also learn how to provide a custom field formatter to provide a different markup for a field, and how to add styles to the What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor.

Finally, we’ll list some alternatives that you can use to manage content in a more advanced way.

The topics we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • Entity, fields, bundles, and display modes
  • Media and image styles
  • Taxonomy terms
  • How to structure contents
  • Defining a new field formatter...