151 Using Composer to Build Drupal Sites Fast - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Composer

What is composer?

Dependency Manager for PHP


How does it relate to Drush Make?

Surprisingly similar
“Getting off the island”


What can you do with composer on a Drupal site?

download dependencies, drupal modules, themes, profiles, drush, external libraries etc


How do you download contrib modules?

https://packagist.drupal-composer.org/


How do you download contrib themes?

^^


Can you specify where to download project? ie: modules/contrib and modules/custom?

composer/installers & davidbarratt/custom-installer


Where do you store custom modules/themes?

Two methods: Committing to your repo or creating separate repos
Reference repo in you composer.json
Toran Proxy
davidbarratt/custom-installer


How can you specify and download a library to go with a module?

module should specify it in composer.json
if not submit a patch, and add to your composer.json for now


Patches

cweagans/composer-patches



Use Cases

drupal/drupal vs drupal/core

http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/tree/composer.json
If you want to use the project-repo/web
composer create-project drupal/drupal


Composer template for Drupal Projects

https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project


Build sites from scratch with composer install
Update drupal/modules/themes/etc. with composer update