README

This is a composer based installer for developers working on the Drutopia distribution.

Prerequisites

The development environment of your choice or simply PHP (7.2+ preferred) and Composer (preferably installed globally).

Installation of Drutopia for development

No need to download this project; Packagist will handle that for you.

composer create-project drutopia/drutopia_dev_template:dev-master --no-interaction --keep-vcs drutopia-dev-site

Composer will create a new directory called my-drutopia-dev-site (change to whatever name you would like). Inside you will find the web directory with the entire code base of Drutopia distribution. You should be able to install it like any other Drupal site.

To use PHP's built-in webserver and SQLite:

cd drutopia-dev-site/web
php -S localhost:8008

Then open localhost:8008 in your browser and follow Drupal's installation instructions, leaving database connection information at its default.

If at any point you want to delete your database so you can start development fresh with a new install you can rm web/sites/default/files/.ht.sqlite.

Updating Drutopia for development

cd drutopia-dev-site
git pull
composer update

And likely deleting the database and starting fresh, or at least running drush updb.