Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

Creating our first basic theme

Now that we have reviewed the basics of how a theme is constructed, there is no better time than the present to create our first basic theme. We will begin by creating a theme named twig that we will use to work with exploring how Twig and the Theme system works in Drupal 8.

In order to make sure that we all are working from the same baseline, let's open up the Chapter03/start folder located in the exercise files and select the drupal8.sql database file. We will use this database snapshot to restore our current database instance. Refer to Chapter 1, Setting Up Our Development Environment for instructions on how to perform a database restore.

Now that we all have the same baseline Drupal instance, we can navigate to ...