Improving your Drupal 8 development workflow
summary
Shows a concrete workflow: use composer (commit composer.lock) and the drupal template drupal/composer-project to keep Drupal in web/, install modules via composer require, apply patches with cweagans/composer-patches, and run composer scripts that call Drupal Console to import config and run database updates automatically. Build artifacts on a staging builder, deploy releases with a current symlink (zero‑downtime), avoid running composer update on servers, and use prestissimo and security checks against composer.lock for faster, safer installs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Dependency management history
- 10:11Composer basics explained
- 22:26Team workflow with Composer
- 30:58Configuration and security
- 37:20Automating tasks
- 42:15Deploying projects
- 51:06Q&A and final tips
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