This is a project template providing a great out-of-the-box experience for new Drupal 11 projects hosted on Acquia. It is based on the Drupal Recommended Project, with the principal difference being the addition of several modules and packages that provide the best possible out-of-the-box experience for Acquia customers.
This project includes the following packages and configurations:
- Drupal core
- Drupal core scaffold
- Acquia Drupal Starter kit
- Drupal Recommended Settings
- Drush (Drupal CLI and development tool)
- Asset Packagist repository, package, and configuration
- Acquia environment detection
- Acquia platform memcache settings
- Best practices for Drupal development, testing and project architecture
The Acquia Drupal Starter kit allows you to install Drupal for a given style of CMS:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Acquia Drupal Enterprise Low-code Starter kit | The low-code starter kit will install starter kit with Site Studio and a UIkit. It provides drag and drop content authoring and low-code site building. An optional content model can be added in the installation process. |
| Acquia Drupal Community Starter kit | The community starter kit will get installed. An optional content model can be added in the installation process. |
| Acquia Drupal Headless Starter kit | The headless starter kit preconfigures Drupal for serving structured, RESTful content to 3rd party content displays such as mobile apps, smart displays and frontend driven websites (e.g. React or Next.js). |
For more information on selecting the Acquia Drupal Starter kit that best fits your use case follow instructions.
Create a new project using Composer:
composer create-project --no-interaction acquia/drupal-recommended-project
Once you create the project, you can and should customize composer.json and
the rest of the project to suit your needs. You will receive updates from any
dependent packages, but not from the project template itself. It's yours to
keep!
For instance, you can remove a provided package by running the following command
and committing the changed composer.json and composer.lock to Git:
composer remove acquia/mysql56
You should only commit changes to composer.json and composer.lock. Do not
commit files in the vendor, docroot/core, and similar directories (these are
ignored by the provided .gitignore file). In order to run your application
in another environment, you’ll need to run composer install to reinstall
these assets. Acquia Code Studio’s
Auto DevOps feature can do this automatically when deploying to Acquia Cloud.
Follow instructions.
Drupal 11 is installed by default. To install Drupal 10, use the below command:
composer create-project acquia/drupal-recommended-project:^2
To install Drupal 9, use the below command:
composer create-project acquia/drupal-recommended-project:^1
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.