Ace any design in Drupal - layout tools and components in your site-building toolbox
summary
Shows concrete recipes: build full-page layouts with container content types plus entity reference and inline entity form to get reliable revisions; use a helper content type per component and render different view modes. Demonstrates Bricks (ECK-based) for reusable, nestable components with duplication and multilingual support. Demonstrates initializing Slick slider from field settings in preprocess. Notes Layout Builder (core, experimental) gives drag‑and‑drop WYSIWYG but has revision and multilingual gaps and forces much more theming to cover editor combinations.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 2:15Why componentized design matters
- 6:14Defining components and style guides
- 10:54Building full page layouts in Core
- 15:59Using Bricks for nested components
- 22:32Layout Builder overview and challenges
- 26:43Q&A and module popularity
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