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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

Summary


The process of reviewing HTML mockups in preparation to convert it into a Drupal 8 theme takes time and patience. We need to make sure that we explore a website in great detail to spot possible layouts, regions, and user interactions that may require custom JavaScript and libraries. In this lesson, we accomplished the following:

  • We broke down our HTML mockup page by page to enable us to better define what regions, layouts, and libraries we may need to create and configure for Drupal 8

  • Having a clear starting point for everyone to begin theming from is important, and we used the database snapshots to ensure that we didn't have to work through the tedious process of entering content

  • Finally, we began configuring our new theme by setting up our octo.info.yml file with regions and references to asset libraries that we set up within our octo.libraries.yml file

In the next chapter, we will dive into setting up our homepage layout to match the homepage of our mockup. We will begin creating...