Managing Drupal 8 Sites with Composer and Drupal Scaffold

Composer is the industry-standard PHP dependency manager that is now in use in Drupal 8 core. This session will show the current best practices for using Composer, drupal-composer, drupal-scaffold, Drush, Drupal Console and Drush site-local aliases to streamline your Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 site repositories for optimal use on teams.

We will answer such gripping questions as:

•     How do I avoid placing a copy all of the Drupal core and contrib modules into my repository?
•     How do I keep my core and contrib modules up-to-date?
•     What if I need to customize .htaccess, or some other file?
•     Can I work with a "lean" repository, and still seamlessly use a full repository to deploy?
•     How do I share Drush aliases with team members, without using another repository, and without making my alias list too long?
•     What is a Drush wrapper script, and how can it help me?
•     Should I use test fixtures in my Behat tests, or make a copy of the production site database?

These techniques will also be helpful for solo site developers--you never know, the next person who needs to check out, build and test your Drupal site from scratch might be you!