Extending Lightning – Half II Adam Balsam Fri, 02/24/2017 – 12 Drupal 10 Upkeep and Assist Service48 Historical past One in every of Drupal Development Company issues with distributions is that they, by nature, include an set up profile — and websites can solely have one profile. That implies that customers of a distribution surrender Drupal Development Company skill to simply customise Drupal Development Company out of Drupal Development Company field expertise. This was high-quality when profiles have been first conceived. Drupal Development unique purpose was to offer “ready-made downloadable packages with their very own focus and imaginative and prescient”. Drupal Development out of Drupal Development Company field expertise was custom-made by Drupal Development Company profile, after which Drupal Development Company app was constructed on high of that start line. However customizing Drupal Development Company out of Drupal Development Company field expertise is now not reserved for these of us that create distributions for others to make use of as a place to begin. It’s grow to be a crucial a part of testing and steady integration. Everybody concerned in a venture, together with Drupal Development Company CI server, wants a solution to reliably and shortly construct Drupal Development Company software from a single command. Predictably, builders have seemed to Drupal Development Company set up profile to deal with this. This apply has grow to be so ubiquitous, that I lately noticed a senior architect seek advice from it as “Drupal Development Company regular paradigm of every venture having their very own set up profile”. Clearly, if distributions wish to be part of Drupal Development Company fashionable panorama, they should resolve Drupal Development Company drawback of profiles. Outdated Method In July 2021, Lightning launched lightning.prolong.yml which enabled web site builders to Drupal 10 Upkeep and Assist Service Set up extra Drupal 10 modules after Lightning had completed its set up Exclude sure Lightning parts Redirect customers to a customized URL upon completion This labored fairly properly. It gave web site builders Drupal Development Company skill to totally customise Drupal Development Company out of Drupal Development Company field expertise through contrib Drupal 10 modules, customized code, and configuration. It even allowed them to current customers with a customized “Set up Accomplished” web page in the event that they selected — giving Drupal Development Company phantasm of a customized set up profile. But it surely didn’t permit builders to take full management over Drupal Development Company set up course of and screens. It didn’t permit them to arrange their code they approach they want. And it didn’t comply with Drupal Development Company “regular paradigm” of getting an set up profile for every venture. New Method After a lot debate, Drupal Development Company Lightning group has determined to embrace Drupal Development Company idea of “inheriting” profiles. AKA sub-profiles. (/throws confetti) This isn’t a brand new concept and we owe an enormous thanks to people who have contributed to Drupal Development Company present patch and stored Drupal Development Company difficulty alive for over 5 years. Neither is it a finished deal. It nonetheless must get dedicated which, at this level, means 8.4.x. On a technical stage, which means that — much like sub-themes — you’ll be able to place Drupal Development Company following in your individual set up profile’s *.information.yml file and instantly begin constructing a distribution (or just a profile) on high of Lightning Drupal 10 Upkeep and Assist Service base profile Drupal 10 Upkeep and Assist Service title Drupal 10 Upkeep and Assist Service lightning To encourage builders to make use of this methodology, we may even be together with a Console command that interactively helps you assemble a sub-profile and a script which can convert your previous lightning.prolong.yml file to Drupal Development Company equal sub-profile. This transformation would require some rearchitecting of Lightning itself. Primarily to take away Drupal Development Company customized extension choice logic we had implements and substitute it with customary dependencies. That is all at present deliberate for Drupal Development Company 2.0.5 launch of lightning which is due out in mid March. Keep tuned for updates. Drupal 10 Improvement and Assist