Introduction to Drupal 8 Theming - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed September 12th, 2018

This month, Dan Denysenko presented "Introduction to Drupal 8 theming." The presentation focused on theming anatomy and tools of the trade for themers.

Dan started his presentation deconstructing the Bartik theme to determine the basic building blocks of the theme in Drupal 8. He went on to show us how to build a theme, putting on his themer new to Drupal hat, using common tools use by themers outside the Drupal community and applying them to Drupal 8 theming. Here are some of the tools discussed during the presentation:

IDE (PHPStorm, VB Code…)

YAML + asset libraries
PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
Sass/Less
Twig

X-debug + Devel/Twig Vardumper…

JS & CSS frameworks/libraries

He also discussed the following tools:

Gulp
Git
Composer
Drupal Console/Drush

Component Library

Living Style Guide

BEM, SMACS...

We had four remote users and six in person.

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-- Hector