How to get the front page title in page.html.twig?

Question

I'm trying to use the page title in my theme's page.html.twig. On normal pages, {{ node.label }} does the job, but that doesn't work on the front page. There, node is NULL, presumably because the font page is a view rather than a "real" page.

I have tried to dump all the available variables on page.html.twig using kint, but it seems that none of them contains the page title. Other questions discuss a similar matter, but either only for normal pages or for getting the title from PHP (and not from within a TWIG template).

I'm looking for an approach that works in any template, although page.html.twig is most important for me right now. It should also take a global title override into account. The ideal solution would also work on normal pages (i.e. not the front page).

TL;DR: I'm looking for a template variable/function X so that {{ X }} is the current page title, no matter whether I'm on the front page or on any other page.

Answer 1

You should really try using the blocks for this, but here's how to do what you asked:

function YOUR_THEME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  $request = \Drupal::request();
  $route_match = \Drupal::routeMatch();
  $page_title = \Drupal::service('title_resolver')->getTitle($request, $route_match->getRouteObject());
  $variables['current_page_title'] = $page_title;
}

This code should go in YOUR_THEME.theme file. You can use it then in page.html.twig this way:

{{ current_page_title }}

See this for more information.

Answer 2

{{ page['#title'] }}

It seems to work on view, node and term pages.