Master Drupal 8's new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast
websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to
completion About This Book * Create beautiful responsive Drupal 8
websites using Twig * Quickly master theme administration, custom
block layouts, views, and the Twig template structure * A
step-by-step guide to the most common approaches in web design Who
This Book Is For This book is intended for front-end developers,
designers, and anyone who is generally interested in learning all
the new features of Drupal 8 theming. Discover what has changed
from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and immerse yourself in the new Twig PHP
templating engine. Familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and
the Drupal Admin interface would be helpful. Prior experience with
setting up and configuring a standalone development environment is
required as we will be working with PHP and MySQL. What You Will
Learn * Navigate the Drupal 8 Admin interface * Build custom block
layouts with reusable and fieldable blocks * Create subthemes based
on the Bartik and Classy base themes * Construct a responsive theme
with Twitter Bootstrap * Work with the new Twig PHP templating
engine * Configure Drupal for Twig debugging * Enable preprocessing
of Twig variables * Develop a theme from scratch following a
step-by-step project outline In Detail 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.
Style and approach Drupal 8 Theming with Twig is intended for
front-end developers, designers, and anyone who is generally
interested in learning all the new features of Drupal 8 theming.
Discover what has changed from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and immerse
yourself in the new Twig PHP templating engine. Familiarity with
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and the Drupal Admin interface would be
helpful. Prior experience with setting up and configuring a
standalone development environment is required as we will be
working with PHP and MySQL.
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