Render View in twig template

Question

I'm pretty new to Drupal, and very new to Drupal 8. I've created a view, and have set up it up with a display block. I'm trying to render this on a specific page. So, I created a page template and a preprocess hook, created the following function.

function MYTHEMENAME_preprocess_node__13(&$variables) {
 $block = \Drupal\block\Entity\Block::load('views_block__downloads_block_2');
 $block_content = \Drupal::entityManager()->getViewBuilder('block')->view($block);
 $variables['downloads'] = $block_content;
}

When I place {{ downloads }} in my page template (page--node--13.html.twig) nothing happens.

Any ideas what I might be doing incorrectly?

Answer 1

When you configure the visibility of the block in UI you can use a standard region and the standard page template.

If you want to do this with a specific page template similar to the question, add a region download to the theme, place the view block in this region and render the region in the page template specific to the node page--node--13.html.twig:

{{ page.download }}