Local Development

A demo of what's new in Bee and what might be on the horizon.

What would you like to know about Bee?

I'll be covering the basics of custom entity creation in 4 progressively complex examples. Examples are available here:

https://github.com/argiepiano/ed

Feel free to download and play around ahead of the presentation.

I've been switching my local development from Lando to DDev. I've created some custom commands to create a local snapshot of a my site and restore it as needed. 

I've also created a local bash script to spin up new local sites and incorporates DDev. 

I'm happy to share what I've learned and learn from what others are doing with DDev. 

I'd like to focus on DDev during this session, but there may be some talk about other local development tools as well. 

Demo module can be used for other purposes than its name might suggest. We will talk on how it can help you for testing core or contrib modules.

Introduction

Bee is the command line tool for Backdrop that is developed specifically for Backdrop and is being actively developed. It runs on Linux based systems (including MacOS) but not Windows.  It has a number of functions in common with Drush and Brush but there are a few key gaps.

Discussion about new BackDev Project that allows developers use containers to ensure a consistent local environment when working with Backdrop

A devcontainer based local Backdrop CMS dev environment

Some of the values of this project:

Gin is a popular admin theme for modern Drupal. Sascha Eggenberger (Gin's creator and maintainer for Drupal) and I have been working on a port to bring this fresh UI to Backdrop.

Examples of things this conversation could cover:

This is an opportunity for folks in the community to share their local development workflow. Each interested participant will be given 5-10 minutes to show/share the tools and processes they use for local development. 

So far, the following folks have expressed an interest in participating:

• Tim Erickson - Lando 
• Martin Price - Lando 
• Joseph Flatt - Custom

Post a comment here if you would be willing to share a little bit about the tools you use for local devevelopment.

Bee is the command line tool built specifically for Backdrop. It allows you to complete a number of actions on your Backdrop site, and build scripts that automate aspects of site management.

This is an open discussion about Bee; it could be an introduction or we could discuss possible future developments.

Comment below if you would like to talk about anything in particular related to bee.

There is a request from an registrant that we discuss: "development workflows (interactions with GitHub, maintain development/user acceptance/production environments)."

Come along to share your experience and learn from others.