What the frontend? Get the most out of Twig, render arrays and D8's caching

Presenter(s)

  • Ashraf Abed

Learn the ins and outs of front end development in Drupal 8.  Empower yourself by learning the less obvious aspects of D8's front end system. Get the most out of render arrays, caching, and twig.

Learning objectives:

  • Build render arrays rather than hardcoding HTML
  • Write maintainable twig - debug, extend, include, and more
  • Apply Drupal 8 cache tags and contexts for better performance

Who Should Attend

  • Back-end Developers
  • Front-end Developers
  • Site Builders

Prerequisites

This session is for people who may have created Drupal themes and overridden twig files, but are less comfortable creating render arrays, utilizing cache tags&contexts, writing maintainable twig code, and debugging twig.