Part – 1: Drupal 8 Basic

Published on : April 27, 2026

Drupal is a content management system which allows you to create and maintain many different types of websites without needing to know any coding languages. Drupal 8 much more differ from its previous versions. Let’s got to know about Drupal 8 theming in details.

New features: HTML 5 used in Drupal 8 markups. From now, you can use HTML 5 tags into form, like – tel, date and others.

Frontend: Drupal 8 also changed its frontend technology. It’s improved Javascript performance and CSS standard. Also introduced some advanced JavaScript libraries like – modernizr.js, underscore.js, backbone.js

Responsive Images: Drupal 8 used responsive image. By creating responsive image mappings you define the image styles that are being used to output images at certain breakpoints.

New Template Engine: Drupal 8 introduced new template engine called “Twing (http://twig.sensiolabs.org/documentation)”. Twing is open source, fast, secure, flexible, easy and clean syntax. So, no need PHP for Drupal 8.

Debugging: Debug more is available for Drupal 8 core

To enable go -> sites/default/service.yml
enable debug: true.

New Core Base theme: Drupal 8 introduced new core base theme called “Classy”