Using DDEV for Drupal Development

This is a general outline for the session and what I will be talking about.

• Introduction
  • Reasons for using ddev
  • Platforms ddev can run on:
    • Windows using WSL2 – I will be discussing this use case
    • Mac
    • Linux
  • Installing Docker on Ubuntu under WSL2 (using docker Desktop makes ddev slower)
  • Installing ddev
  • Installing Linux PHPstorm
• Configuring DDEV
  • Advanced configuration options
• Installing Drupal
  • Fresh install
    • Make sure you do a composer require drush/drush
    • Common contributed modules I usually install
  • Installing a version of the site in git
    • Composer install
    • Drush deploy
• Using DDEV
  • ddev snapshot
  • ddev import-db and ddev export-db for importing/exporting a database
  • ddev drush cex (make sure you have the config directory set up)
  • git workflow
    • git add
    • git commit
    • git push
    • git pull
  • Starting the website
  • PHPstorm
    • Getting ready for debugging
    • ddev xdebug on/off
    • Slide/demo/video show PHPstorm in action to debug something.
  • VSCode
    • Debugging techniques
  • Using drush php:cli to debug or test code
  • Example workflow at Rutgers:
    Insert sample workflow slide/demo