Lando provides scaffolding for tools like Drupal Console and Drush.
To use these tools within Lando, just pre-empt your command with lando to make sure it's running within the Lando interface.
For example, to install a new module in Drupal 8 using Drupal Console, use:
lando drupal moi module_name
The below scenario assumes you have Lando installed on your own machine for local development.
Install Drupal via composer:
composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev SITENAME --no-interaction
Enter SITENAME and init lando.
cd SITENAME
lando init
During the lando init process:
All about Lando (a container environment helper application) and Drupal 8.
Georgia Tech’s primary supported content management system (CMS) is Drupal. The majority of websites at the Institute using Drupal are currently on Drupal 7.
Since Drupal 8’s release, there has been increased interest in transitioning to Drupal 8 across the Institute. Georgia Tech Information Technology and Institute Communications (IC) would like to share additional information and recommendations on this for campus.
Satisfies a comment on drupal.org:
Someday I would like to spend the time to make a list of the various field types and the best way to check whether they are empty so I can stop Googling this thread every few months.
{% if content.field|render is not empty %}
{{ content.field }}
{% endif %}
Note that this can be an expensive (resource-wise) check to make.
Twig stubs and code-samples to aid your Twig template development.
Kevin Pittman has written a blog post called "So, You Blew Up Your Drupal 8 Site - Now What?" that covers multiple methods for recovering a dead Drupal 8 website (on the assumption you hadn't made a backup right before it died).
Drupal 8 has a much more sophisticated and ultimately aggressive caching system. While this is supposed to be a good change, sometimes it really gets in your way.
Kevin Pittman has written an blog post on Drupal 8 Internal Caching for Dummies that helps clarify the different types of caching that occur and how to configure them to work to your advantage.
Many Georgia Tech websites have been built using Drupal Express (DX), which is a custom version of Drupal 7 that allows you to create a website with little technical or design expertise. The ready-made site comes with built in features and tools like news and events listings, and mobile optimization.
Drupal 8, released in November of 2015, is a major rewrite of the Drupal core engine and APIs. Because Drupal 8 has changed so much, there is no direct in-place upgrade path to go from any earlier version of Drupal to Drupal 8. Instead, Drupal 7 and earlier sites must be migrated to Drupal 8, which involves setting up a whole new Drupal 8 website and copying into it (manually or automatically) the content of the older website.
