Make Zurb Foundation a proper Drupal Starterkit theme

Created on 30 May 2025, 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Every major version update to core requires an update to zurb_foundation for any theme that uses it as a base theme. This complicates the development cycle and makes major upgrades more difficult.

Steps to reproduce

Use drush to generate a starter kit theme from baseline zurb_foundation. Wait till there is a new core major version upgrade. Deal with it.

Proposed resolution

It seems Drupal has moved on from the old system we used for sub-theming. Not that sub-theming doesn't have it's place, rather that with the increased velocity, and the focus on backwards compatibility, I think it makes sense for Zurb Foundation to move to using Drupal's starterkit api.

Remaining tasks

Judging from the docs → and cores starterkit theme, this shouldn't be too difficult of a task.

1. Remove the existing Sub-theme
2. Add starterkit: true to the info.yml file
3. Update the Drush Commands
4. Test

User interface changes

None

API changes

The Drush command to create a new sub-theme would now make a non-sub-theme.

Data model changes

Our starterkit would no longer be a sub-theme.

📌 Task

Status

Active

Version

9.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States frob US

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Merge Requests

!33Make Zurb Foundation a proper Drupal Starterkit theme
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🇺🇸United States frob
updated 7 days ago

Comments & Activities

Issue created by @frob
Comment 2 months ago →
🇺🇸United States frob US
Comment 2 months ago →
🇺🇸United States frob US
Ready for review, test it with

php core/scripts/drupal generate-theme foozf --name "fooZF" --description "Custom theme from zf" --starterkit zurb_foundation
This will make a new theme from the zurb foundation theme.
Comment 2 months ago →
🇺🇸United States frob US
frob → changed the visibility of the branch 9.x to hidden.
Merge request !33#3527384 removed the drush command and the STARTER theme. Added a... → (Open) created by frob
Comment 7 days ago →
🇺🇸United States frob US
Think about this further. This should really be a new major version of the theme. Too much has had to change to accommodate the building of the starterkit.

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