Reviewing the new info.yml file

The Info.yml file is required when creating any theme. It helps notify Drupal that a theme exists and provides information to the Appearance interface that a theme is available to install. We will be working with *.info.yml files when creating our first theme, so let's take a look at the makeup of a basic example.info.yml file:

name: Example description: 'An Example theme.' type: theme package: Custom base theme: classy core: 8.x libraries: - example/global-styling regions: header: Header primary_menu: 'Primary menu' secondary_menu: 'Secondary menu' page_top: 'Page top' page_bottom: 'Page bottom' highlighted: Highlighted breadcrumb: Breadcrumb content: Content sidebar_first: 'Sidebar first' sidebar_second: 'Sidebar ...

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