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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


When we first started our homepage, it seemed to be a daunting task filled with deciding how we should convert our mockup into a dynamic rendition of blocks, regions, Twig templates, and variables. We learned through repetition that such a daunting task is actually not that complicated after all. In this chapter, we accomplished the following:

  • We worked with site branding by adding our logo, creating Twig templates for blocks, and refactoring markup.

  • We learned best practices to add assets with libraries, custom scripts, and scripts to our website and individual pages.

  • We discovered how to develop the aggregated content using Views, create Block layouts from Views, and format the output of Views content for use with JavaScript libraries.

In the next chapter, we will continue our theming by taking a look at creating an interior page template, carrying over any global regions such as our Header and Footer, and will continue working with various Twig templates.