composer

When working on Drupal it is often useful to change your local development.services.yml to enable certain development features and make debugging your application easier.

e.g. This is basically taken from default.services.yml file with certain parameters changed to provide a more friendly development environment, depending on what you are working on. This can be adjusted to suit but hopefully will give you an idea. Notice how this gives us the ability to override various parameters and services to suit.

Sometimes it may be useful to specify a patched branch of a particular project. I recently came across an issue where it was not possible to patch a module, but I was able to create an issue branch  and  pull request. Pending approval and review I was still able to reference this branch in my composer file, This was useful in this case as this particular dependency broke the composer pipeline, install update etc. Here I show you how this can be done.

1. Add Your repo

With the latest release from Drupal also including the latest security fixes, it was time to update again. One issue that experienced Drupal Developers are probably quite used to by now are the continual stream of security advisories that need to be addressed, especially if you are managing a site that also includes peoples data. This means regularly maintaining your site to ensure it is kept up to date and secure.