Acquia Remote Administration Composer Build Example

Composer builds allow Acquia Remote Administration (RA) clients to efficiently include various scripts and patches, including post-update builds.

Acquia Automation will update Composer built websites whose repositories conform to the proper architecture and include a fully-functioning composer.json file that builds a Drupal website.

This repository contains sample composer.json files which can be used to start a working Drupal 8 build. Each example file builds on the previous, with the most comprehensive being composer-custom.json.

• composer-basic.json: This file installs Drupal core, and the required scaffold and installers packages. This is the bare minimum required for a Drupal site on Acquia hosting.
• composer-contrib.json: This file adds a few Drupal contrib modules as well as two modules intended for development only.
• composer-libraries.json: This file builds on the previous two by illustrating how you can use Composer to add third-party dependencies, like libraries, and install them in specific directories (the example is drupal/file_browser).
• composer-custom.json: Coming Soon.

Please see Acquia Automation: Composer builds for a detailed explanation of each section.

Usage

1. Either use the already present composer.json file or copy a composer template file into the top level of your repo, renaming it as composer.json.
2. Add the specific Drupal modules, themes and libraries that your site requires. You may do this by manually adding items to the require section of the composer.json or running the command composer require drupal/modulename.
3. Ensure that drupal-composer/drupal-scaffold is required before drupal/core.
4. Run composer install to install all code, vendor directories, etc.

Unless you are using a CI tool, you must commit all generated code to your Acquia repository!

Resources

• Composer
• Acquia Remote Administration
• Acquia Automation
• Acquia Automation: Composer builds