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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Adding assets to CKEditor


Something new to Drupal 8 was the addition of a WYSIWYG. The preferred choice was CKEditor, which means that we no longer must install additional modules to provide our users with a better content editing experience.

The one drawback of using a WYSIWYG is that the styles in the editor and what the end user sees are sometime quite different. The reasoning is that the themes styling is not inherited by the WYSIWYG. We can now remedy this by adding additional metadata to our information file by adding the following:

  • ckeditor_stylesheets
  • css/styles.css

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans

The above metadata adds a reference to the theme's style sheet and also adds Google fonts to the editor. This helps to bridge the gap between the backend and frontend.