This project template should provide a kickstart for managing your site dependencies with Composer.

1. Install composer.
2. Create the project : composer create-project drupaljedi/project project_name --stability dev --no-interaction
3. Replace all occurrences of project_name with your project name in the following files: docroot/sites/default/settings.php docroot/sites/prj-settings.inc provision/local/docker-compose.yml provision/dev/docker-compose.yml provision/stage/docker-compose.yml
4. Create directory provision/local/docker-runtime/settings
5. Copy with your project name the provision/local/example.project_name-settings.inc file into the provision/local/docker-runtime/settings directory and replace all credentials to the right ones.
6. Run docker containers: cd provision/local && docker-compose up -d && cd -
7. Install Drupal: ./tools/scripts/install.sh

With composer require ... you can download new dependencies to your installation.

cd project_name
composer require drupal/be_sure

The composer create-project command passes ownership of all files to the project that is created. You should create a new git repository, and commit all files not excluded by the .gitignore file.

When installing the given composer.json some tasks are taken care of:

• Drupal will be installed in the docroot-directory.
• Autoloader is implemented to use the generated composer autoloader in vendor/autoload.php, instead of the one provided by Drupal (drupal/vendor/autoload.php).
• Modules (packages of type drupal-module) will be placed in docroot/modules/contrib/
• Theme (packages of type drupal-theme) will be placed in docroot/themes/contrib/
• Profiles (packages of type drupal-profile) will be placed in docroot/profiles/contrib/

This project will attempt to keep all of your Drupal Core files up-to-date; the project drupal-composer/drupal-scaffold is used to ensure that your scaffold files are updated every time drupal/core is updated. If you customize any of the "scaffolding" files (commonly .htaccess), you may need to merge conflicts if any of your modified files are updated in a new release of Drupal core.

Follow the steps below to update your core files.

1. Run composer update to update Drupal core, contrib modules and its dependencies.
2. Run git diff to determine if any of the scaffolding files have changed. Review the files for any changes and restore any customizations to .htaccess or robots.txt.
3. Commit everything all together in a single commit, so docroot will remain in sync with the core when checking out branches or running git bisect.

Composer recommends NO. They provide argumentation against but also workrounds if a project decides to do it anyway.

The drupal-scaffold plugin can download the scaffold files (like index.php, update.php, …) to the docroot/ directory of your project. If you have not customized those files you could choose to not check them into your version control system (e.g. git). If that is the case for your project it might be convenient to automatically run the drupal-scaffold plugin after every install or update of your project. You can achieve that by registering @drupal-scaffold as post-install and post-update command in your composer.json:

"scripts": {
    "drupal-scaffold": "DrupalComposer\\DrupalScaffold\\Plugin::scaffold",
    "post-install-cmd": [
        "@drupal-scaffold",
        "..."
    ],
    "post-update-cmd": [
        "@drupal-scaffold",
        "..."
    ]
},

If you need to apply patches (depending on the project being modified, a pull request is often a better solution), you can do so with the composer-patches plugin.

To add a patch to drupal module foobar insert the patches section in the extra section of composer.json:

"extra": {
    "patches": {
        "drupal/foobar": {
            "Patch description": "URL to patch"
        }
    }
}