For agencies and other organizations that manage multiple or many sites, one challenge is keeping shared code in particular code based infrastructure up to date. Drupal's Scaffolding composer plug-in is one particularly effective solution. Used by hosts such as Pantheon and Amazee as well as a growing number of agencies.

In this session we'll learn the capabilities of the Scaffolding plug-in are, move on to how I use - both at work and personally with the differences in requirements there. We'll then move on to common difficulties and pitfalls in standardizing your site setup - from new sites to those old sites that kinda make you grimace - whether inherited or your own code.

Learning Objectives

Understand Drupal Scaffolding plug-in
Create or use custom scaffolding implementations

Prerequisites

composer

Synopsis

Standardize your builds and ease future maintenance with custom Drupal Scaffolding.