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Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

You're reading from   Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development Build fast, responsive Drupal websites with custom theme design to deliver a rich user experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238098
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1 – Styling Drupal
2. Chapter 1: Setting up a Local Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting a New Theme and Build Process 4. Chapter 3: How Drupal Renders an HTML Page 5. Chapter 4: Mapping the Design to Drupal Components 6. Chapter 5: Styling the Header and the Footer 7. Chapter 6: Styling the Content 8. Chapter 7: Styling Forms 9. Chapter 8: Styling Views 10. Chapter 9: Styling Blocks 11. Chapter 10: Styling the Maintenance, Taxonomy, Search Results, and 403/404 Pages 12. Part 2 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 11: Single Directory Components 14. Chapter 12: Creating Custom Twig Functions and Filters 15. Chapter 13: Making a Theme Configurable 16. Chapter 14: Improving Performance and Accessibility 17. Part 3 – Decoupled Architectures
18. Chapter 15: Building a Decoupled Frontend 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a starterkit

Until Drupal 9, the recommended way to create a new custom theme was to extend from a core theme called Classy. The Classy theme contained a copy of all the templates from Drupal core with markup enriched by some useful classes. So, nearly every custom theme out in the wild is a sub-theme of Classy. This has caused some issues with the evolution of Drupal, because Classy needed to stay backward compatible with its first version (which came out with Drupal 8).

Classy has been deprecated and removed from Drupal 10 as a new way of creating custom themes has emerged.

Drupal 10 has a new theme generator command that can be used to create a custom theme from a starterkit. Instead of sub-theming Classy, you can use this command to generate your new theme as a copy of some starterkit. Basically, instead of extending a base theme, you rather copy all the assets of that theme to a new one, completely owned by you. Core provides a default starterkit with markup similar...

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