Metadrop's Drupal Boilerplate

Important notice

This project has reached the end of its life and is now obsolete. We are no longer providing updates or support.

Please consider using DDEV Aljibe.

Introduction

This repository is a boilerplate to create Drupal 8/9/10 projects with many tools already preconfigured with minimal effort. You can have a Drupal site running in your local in less than 3 minutes.

Tools included out-of-the-box:

• A Docker infrastructure.
• A boilerplate folder structure that fits all project needs.
• A working and preconfigured Drush, the Drupal shell.
• MkDocs to document your project using Markdown files.
• Grumphp to enforce Drupal coding standards. It is configured to use phplint, yamlint, jsonlint, drupalcheck and phpcs.
• Phpqa for static analysis.
• Behat BDD testing configured and working.
• PHPUnit for unit testing configured and working.
• BackstopJS for visual regression testing.
• Stylelint for checking style files.
• Lighthouse for checking performance, accessibility, PWA, SEO and more.
• Pa11y for in-depth accessibility checks.
• Scripthor toolset with some helper scripts for development.
• Optionally, a Solr container ready to be used by Drupal.

It is based on Docker4Drupal, which uses Docker and Docker Compose. To get all the information about available webservers, databases, PHP versions and other containers check their wodby/docker4drupa repository.

Because it uses Docker under the hood, you can customize whatever you want, add new containers or use any standard Docker functionality to accommodate your project needs.

Quickview

Drupal.Boilerplate.demo.mp4

Requisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose, version V2.

Optionally

• Python 3 with PyYAML installed for the make info command

Usage

To create a new project based on this boilerplate, the recommended method is using Composer's create-project command:

composer create-project  --ignore-platform-reqs metadrop/drupal-boilerplate my-project

Depending in the Drupal release you want you should use a different branch.

Drupal release	Boilerplate branch	Example command
10.x	3.x branch	composer create-project --ignore-platform-reqs metadrop/drupal-boilerplate my-project
9.x	2.x branch	composer create-project --ignore-platform-reqs metadrop/drupal-boilerplate:^2 my-project

NOTE: 2.x branch is minimally maintained because Drupal9 support ends November, 2023.

Because this boilerplate uses drupal/core-recommended under the hood you will get an updated release of the chosen core.

Once Composer finalizes the project creation an assistant will be automatically run. It will ask you a few questions:

• The project name: this a machine name for the project. It will be used for Docker container names, project URL and some other places. Please, use only letters, numbers and underscores.

• Setup a git repository? If yes, the assistant will initialize a git repository and make the initial commit.

• Install Drupal? If yes, the assistant will configure and install a Drupal site.

• Radix sub-theme: the assistant can create a Radix subtheme for you. We quite often use Radix as the base theme of our projects. You can skip this and use your own theme, of course.

After the assistant finished, if you have selected to install Drupal your project will be running and the assistant will print the URL to access it.

!!! NOTE By default, drupal-boilerplate is installed with a minimal profile. If you want to install another profile, you must not install Drupal during the composer create-project installation problem, when the question 'Do you want to install Drupal?' appears.

After that, just install the profile you need with the drush site-install command into the PHP container, after the project creation has finished.

Example:

   drush site-install standard

Please note that if you install a profile that implements the hook_install the make setup command won't work as it makes a installation from configuration, and those installations requires the hook install to not be present.

FAQ

Is this for me?

This boilerplate is a good choice for medium to advanced users that want to have a full local environment with a complete set of tools ready to use for their Drupal projects in matter of minutes. However, you should be comfortable using Docker, Drush and another tools without a managing layer like DDEV provides.

Why not Lando/DDEV/whatever?

We love them! However, we have had some issues trying to adapt them to a certain edge case projects. Those tools allows to handle complex topics like docker thanks to a managing layer. However, that layer imposes some limits. It is not easy to hit them, but when you do it is a hard limit. That's when this boilerplate can be helpful.

Troubleshoting

'make info' command doesn't work

Python 3 with PyYML installed is needed.

Unit tests are not working

You may encounter several errors when running the make test command. For example:

PHP Fatal error:  Declaration of Drupal\Tests\ultimate_cron\Kernel\UltimateCronQueueTest::setUp() must be compatible with Drupal\Tests\system\Kernel\System\CronQueueTest::setUp(): void in /var/www/html/web/modules/contrib/ultimate_cron/tests/src/Kernel/UltimateCronQueueTest.php on line 26

Or

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Drupal\Tests\group\Functional\GroupBrowserTestBase' not found in /var/www/html/web/modules/contrib/webform/modules/webform_group/tests/src/Functional/WebformGroupBrowserTestBase.php:13

This is due make testtries to run all Unit tests and some modules have issues. For example, first error comes from this issue "Kernel test not compatible with core [9.x]", while second error is handled on this other issue: "Group Testing Fails in PHPUnit for Webform Group submodule".

If you want to run all tests you need to address all those issues. But what for? You probably just want to run the test from a certain module. For that, just pass the proper path in the make command, like this:

make test web/modules/contrib/devel/tests/src/Unit