Gadget: A Generator for New Drupal Projects

Yeoman generator to scaffold a Drupal project for use with grunt-drupal-tasks.

Features

Gadget will set up a Drupal project with the site skeleton and tools to build your project and configure your build system with the Grunt Drupal Tasks kit.

• Automatically uses the latest version of Grunt Drupal Tasks.
• Select from Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Atrium 2, or Octane. The latest published release of the selected option will be used.
• For Drupal 8, creates a composer.json file that requires the latest stable Drupal, Drupal Console, and Drush.
• For Drupal 7, creates a Drush Makefile so your grunt build process is ready to assemble a working codebase immediately!
• Provides numerous configuration files for Git, IDE's, and other tools for Drupal best practices out-of-the-box.
• The entire Grunt Drupal Tasks features list is ready to go, including Behat Testing, Static Analysis, and Continuous-Integration readiness.

Requirements

• Install Node.js v4 or better either using a package manager like apt-get, brew, or yum or a standalone installer

• Once Node.js is installed, use npm to install the generator. If you have not used a Yeoman generator before install the yo package as well. Grunt Drupal Tasks requires the grunt task runner as well.

npm install -g generator-gadget grunt-cli yo

Grunt Drupal Tasks leverages a number of additional tools from outside the Node ecosystem, such as PHP and Composer. See Grunt-Drupal-Tasks for details.

Usage

To set up a new Drupal project with Grunt Drupal Tasks using Gadget, run the following in a new directory:

yo gadget

Options

• --offline: Will make a best effort to complete generator run, though some generated values may be non-applicable, such as Drupal Core version of "0".
• --use-master: Will make a point of leveraging the master version of Grunt Drupal Tasks.
• --skip-install: Will skip running npm install at the end of the generation process.
• --skip-readme: Will not generate a README.md. (Useful when you've already hand-crafted the perfect project introduction!)
• --skipWelcome: Skip opening welcome message.
• --skipGoodbye: Skip closing messages.

Additional Resources

• For information on using Grunt Drupal Tasks after installing with Gadget, see the Grunt Drupal Tasks documentation.
• Interested in the Frontend? Check out our sibling project, Generator Patter Lab Starter to get a theme ready to go with options for Pattern Lab, icon fonts, SASS, visual regression testing, and more.

Docker-based Development

Install the dependencies:

docker-compose run --rm cli npm install

Then run the generator:

docker-compose run --rm yo gadget