Need start to finish help on getting Drupal 8 up and running locally? Ready to start contributing code? This will help you get everything installed locally including Drush and gives basic information about Configuration for those new to it.

1. GETTING STARTED
WITH DRUPAL 8
CODE

2. Environment Setup

3. D8 Requirements
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● Web Server
o Apache 2.0 or Nginx 1.1 (or greater)
● PHP 5.4.2 (or greater)
● One of the following databases:
o MySQL 5.0.15 (or greater), MariaDB 5.1.44 (or
greater), Percona Server 5.1.70 (or greater),
PostgreSQL 8.3 (or greater), SQLite 3.4.2 (or greater)

4. Personal Webserver Tools
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● Acquia Dev Desktop
o http://www.acquia.com/downloads
● MAMP
o http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/ (PHP 5.4.4+)
● XAMPP
o https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

5. Drush 7 (D6, D7, D8)
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Drush 7.x (dev) Required
o https://github.com/drush-ops/drush
Install with Composer:
#Download composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
#Move it to a global location (sudo might be required)
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
#Make sure Composer’s global bin directory is on the system PATH (recommended)
Add “PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin” to ~/.bashrc
#Have Composer install drush
composer global require drush/drush:dev-master

6. Database Setup
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● Create your database
o phpMyAdmin, Sequel Pro or Other
● Make note of:
o Database name
o User Name
o User Password

7. Site Install

8. D8 Install
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● Clone in Drupal from Git
o https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-
instructions
o Use the 8.x branch
o git clone --branch 8.x
http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git cd drupal
● Typical install.php page
o ex: http://localhost:8888/install.php

9. Fix Some Issues

10. D8 Issues Queue
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● Issues Queue
o https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal
● Filters
o Filter Version by 8.x issues
o Issue can be any other status but “Closed” or
“Reviewed by the community”
o Priority is great to follow
o Novice tag for challenge level

11. D8 Issues Help
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● Re-rolling patches
o https://www.drupal.org/patch/reroll
● Creating an interdiff (patching a patch)
o https://www.drupal.org/documentation/git/interdiff
● Viewing Commit History
o http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-
Commit-History

12. Configuration

13. D8 Configuration
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● Core Configuration Manager
● Configuration Managed in Code
● Uses human-readable text files in the
YAML (.yml) format
● https://www.drupal.org/documentation
/administer/config

14. D8 Configuration
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● Supports Import/Export of
configuration
● Binary file imports or direct code
paste
● Only supports configuration import
from same site

15. D8 Module Configurations
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● Modules (core and contrib) have
configuration files (.yml)
● Most live in the module’s “config”
directory
● Install sub-directory configuration
imported on module install

16. Path: core/modules/language/config/install/tour.tour.language.yml
id: language
module: language
label: 'Content translation'
langcode: en
routes:
- route_name: system.modules_list
- route_name: language.content_settings_page
tips:
content-translation-settings-enable-module:
id: content-translation-settings-enable-module
plugin: text
label: 'Content Translation'
body: 'Specify the parts of the website that may be translated, and default
languages for them.<br>Now, click to the right on <em>Allows users to
translate content entities</em>, and then click the <em>Next</em> button
below.'
weight: 1
attributes:
data-id: module-content_translation

17. THANK YOU!
Keenan Holloway
Senior Web Developer
kholloway@forumone.com
www.forumone.com