Drupal 8 Composer and Configuration Management

Teacher: Brian Lewis
Released: May 17, 2017
Length: 1.08 hours
Level: Advanced
Certificate: Finish lessons and pass the quiz with 70%

Table of Contents

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Introduction and Installation

Introduction to Composer

How to Install Composer

How to Install Drupal Console

How to Install Drupal 8 With Composer

Starting Your Project

Setting Up MAMP for Local Development

Using xip.io for Local Device Testing

How to Create a Drush Alias

Installing Drupal with Console

Configuring settings.php and settings.local.php

Committing Your Project to Git

Managing Modules with Composer

Installing and Uninstalling Modules with Composer

Installing the Dev Version of Modules

Updating and Downgrading Modules

Skipping Specific Module Versions

Specifying Acceptable Version Ranges

Enabling Modules with Drush

Configuration Management

Setting the Config Directory in settings.php

Exporting Config Locally

Using the Configuration Installer Install Profile

Deploying to Production

Installing the Site on a Production Server

Setting up settings.local.php

Changing Configuration Options in settings.local.php

How to Enable Theme Debugging on Development Sites

Overriding Module Configuration in settings.local.php

Configuring a Local Site and Exporting Configuration

Pushing Changes to a Remote Site

Using Drush Shell Aliases to Make Development Easier

Verifying the Changes, and Finishing the Class

Composer Quiz

This class covers the modern tools and techniques available to Drupal site-builders. We'll use tools like Composer, Drush, Git, and Configuration Management

We'll see how all these tools work together to make your Drupal 8 site development and management process faster, more efficient, and less error-prone

Specifically, we'll talk about how to use Composer to build a site locally as well as on a production server, and how to use Configuration Management to develop locally, and then push final changes to a production server. While building a site with Composer, we'll use the new official Drupal.org packagist repo.

Brian Lewis

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I got back into Drupal about a year before Drupal 7 was released, so I built a couple of sites in Drupal 6. Then in January I completely switched over to D7 when it was released. Because I decided to make the switch right away, I was running into a lot of bugs/issues that hadn't been resolved yet. So, I started to make videos helping other people with the problems I found.

With the videos I made, I realized that I had shown some solutions, but people still had a lot of questions about edge cases. That was when I saw the light, and had the idea to put together series of short videos covering different topics. This format allowed me go in-depth with each module. I'm glad to be sharing these videos on OSTraining!