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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Where do we go from here?


We have covered a lot of information on how to use Drupal 8 and the new Twig template architecture to produce a great looking theme. So where do we go from here? One of the challenges of working with Drupal 8 in its infancy is the lack of contributed modules that have been ported over from Drupal 7. Just know that module maintainers are working hard to bring new and familiar ways to extend Drupal 8.

Some great modules worth taking a look at that have made great progress include:

Each module by itself is great, but together these modules will allow you to achieve a lot of different layouts quickly and easily, without the need to always create a Twig template.

As always, keep an eye on the Drupal 8 theming documentation located at https://www.drupal.org/theme-guide/8 for detailed information on how to accomplish basic...