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How to get the base path for your Drupal 8 site in a Twig template

In page.html.twig you will have a working {{ base_path }} variable. Why it isn't available in every template, i have no idea. As i think it should be and everything else looks messy, my preferred solution is to do exactly as Drupal does in the preprocess page function for any place i need it.

To make {{ base_path }} available to block templates in a theme named example, add this code to the example.theme file:

<?php
   
/**
     * Implements hook_preprocess_block().
     */
   
function example_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
   
     
$variables['base_path'] = base_path();
    }
?>

Note that if getting a node's or other entity's URL there are methods to do it all for you.

However, there are reasons for getting the base_path, such as when displaying images that live in your theme folder. {{ directory }} provides the path to the theme folder, but it leaves off the base path (usually just a / but in order to preserve Drupal's proper functioning from a subdirectory of a domain that shouldn't be hardcoded). On page.html.twig or in any template which has the above preprocesser, this will work for that purpose:

    <img src="{{ base_path ~ directory }}/images/nsf1.svg"
         alt="National Science Foundation logo" height="80" width="80" />
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