Summary
In this chapter, we saw how a view is structured, which theme hooks it uses, and when to render a full row or a set of fields.
We then saw which templates are used for exposed filters and pagers.
Views is a complex module, with complex templates and with hundreds of contrib modules that extend it. In this chapter, we saw only the standard templates and configurations. We’ll return to Views later in the book when we talk about rendering a set of search results.
The Views module, like many others, provides new blocks to the system (such as the ones provided by the menu system). In Chapter 9, Styling Blocks, we’ll deep-dive into how to style some of the most used block types.
