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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

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

Implementing responsive sidebars


So far, we have only been dealing with a one column layout. All of our blocks have been assigned to regions before, after, or within our main content. Now we are faced with our first block that is associated with a sidebar. The challenge is to make sure that when content is added to a sidebar, our main content region adjusts accordingly.

For this next section, we will be modifying our page.html.twig template to conditionally look for the existence of sidebars and alter the column classes of our content region.

Begin by opening page.html.twig and adding the logic and markup for the sidebar first region. This markup will be added directly below the <div class="row"> section, but above the content wrapper:

New markup

{% if page.sidebar_first %}
  <aside class="layout-sidebar-first" role="complementary">
    <div class="col-md-3">
      {{ page.sidebar_first }}
    </div>
  </aside>
{% endif %}

The markup we added conditionally checks...