Drupal 8 Module Development

Rendering menus

Now that we have covered some theory about the menu system, it's time to get our hands dirty with some code. The first thing we will look at is how to work with menus programmatically in view of rendering them in our module. For this, we will work with the default Administration menu that comes with Drupal core and has many links in it, at various levels. Note that the code we write in this section will not be included in the code repository.

Drupal core provides a block called SystemMenuBlock, which can be used to render any menu inside a block. However, let's take a look at how we can do this ourselves instead.

The first thing we will need to do is get the MenuLinkTree service. We can inject it or,if that's not possible, ...