Generic Templates

Generic Template injects simple, generic classes into entity Views and Forms and forwards more power over layouting and styling to css.

The generic styles are $entity_type, $bundle and $view_mode of each entity. (could be use defined, using tokens)

With enough differentiation it's possible to fallback to one generic twig template to use for all entities and no matter what bundle or view_mode they are shown and still achieve rich, visual variations using pure css.

Before css grid, such approach would not have been possible because traditional grid systems where integrative with the HTML structure: Different layouts for different view_modes required different HTML, hence different twig templates.

Simple css examples:

node.full {
  # css fopr every node in full view_mode
}

node.article .field {
  # css for evey field in an article-node
}

.entity-reference > .teaser:not(.article) {
  # css for every teaser within an entity-reference container. Article teasers are excluded
}

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