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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build and customize Drupal 8 modules and extensions efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168775
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Developing for Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Module 3. Logging and Mailing 4. Theming 5. Menus and Menu Links 6. Data Modeling and Storage 7. Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. The Database API 9. Custom Fields 10. Access Control 11. Caching 12. JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Internationalization and Languages 14. Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Views 16. Working with Files and Images 17. Automated Testing 18. Drupal 8 Security

Views theming

Frontend developers had many pain points in Drupal 7 and many of them were also related to theming Views output. Luckily, Drupal 8 has made things much easier to handle. We will look at a bit of that here in order to nudge you in the right direction when applying what you learned in Chapter 4, Theming.

Views is very complex and is made up of many pluggable layers. A View has a display (such as a Page or Block), which can render its content using a given style (such as an Unformatted list or Table). Styles can decide whether to control the rendering of a given result item (row) themselves or delegate this to a row plugin (such as Fields or Entity). Most, in fact, do the latter. The two most common scenarios for using row plugins is either using the EntityRow one which renders the resulting entities using a specified view mode or the Fields plugin, which uses individual...

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