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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 forms

Drupal uses a set of nested templates to render a form, starting from the template of the single input element (such as textfield or button) up to a form element that wraps together the input element and its label. Every form element is then managed by a template for the specific form ID, and finally, by a template that wraps everything by adding the <form> HTML tag.

Styling generic forms

To style a form we need to overwrite and customize some templates:

  1. First, we need to provide a custom template for all the render elements used in the form, and their labels:
    {{ include('@atoms/input.html.twig', {
      attributes: attributes,
      children: children,
    }) }}

This is the template that Drupal will use for every form input; put this code in the templates/form/input.html file of the alps_trips theme.

  1. Submit buttons are different from other input elements, and must use a different template:
    {{ include('@atoms/button...