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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

Preface

Working with themes in Drupal is not an easy task, and it is typical to get lost digging through all the layers and APIs involved. Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development deep-dives into the theme layer of the new Drupal 10.

In this book, we’ll explore how the Content Management System builds its pages, starting with all the basic concepts you need to develop a new Drupal theme from scratch and progressing to new features, such as starter kits, Single Directory Components, and decoupled architectures.

We want you to concentrate on the book’s main topic, so we’ve provided a design system, the Drupal configuration, and an opinionated stack to run a website on your local machine.

Chapter after chapter, Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development will guide you from a set of unstyled pages to a production-ready website that is fast and accessible.

Of course, we’ll take a modern approach, using cutting-edge technologies, such as Storybook, theme starter kits, SDCs, and decoupled architectures.

I like to delve about a topic only after all the concepts it builds on are evident; for this reason, the order of some chapters may seem unusual. Trust me – this is better than going back and forth trying to remember in a later chapter what we discussed at the beginning of the book.