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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

View templates

Views are some of the most complex modules that live inside Drupal core. Until Drupal 7, it was a contrib module, and this explains why its UI it's a little bit different compared to the rest of the system.

A view is a configuration entity that can be created using the web interface of Drupal; even some basic websites have multiple views used to represent listings of any type.

Note

A configuration entity in Drupal is used to represent any complex configuration, which is usually created with the web interface and then exported into the configuration folder.

Do you need to show the latest five blog posts, ordered by creation date? You need a view. A list of the most active users on the site? A view. The books that are available on a library website? Again, a view.

Content listing provided by the Views module can then be used to populate the main content area of a page, produce blocks that can be added to a region, or generate an RSS feed. Contributed...