Having a generator tool helper. Which helps in extending Varbase profile using the sub profile method.

Step #1 Download

Example: Let consider that the /var/www/html/products directory was the default products workspace directory.

• Open a terminal window

• Create the directory if it was not created yet

• Change directory to the coding workspace directory

• Clone the Varbase Subprofile generator

• Change directory to the varbase-subprofile-generator directory

mkdir /var/www/html/products
cd /var/www/html/products
git clone [email protected]:Vardot/varbase-subprofile-generator.git
cd /var/www/html/products/varbase-subprofile-generator

Step #2 Select a Version

Set the version of the generator

Example: In case of wanting to generate a sub profile of Varbase 9.0.x run the following commands:

cd /var/www/html/products/varbase-subprofile-generator
git checkout 9.0.0

Step #3 Change Settings

Notice the settings.yml file which will set the default settings for Varbase Sub Profile Generator.

source:
  profile:
    git_repository: [email protected]:Vardot/varbase_subprofile_basic.git
    dev_branch:
      name: 9.0.x
      alias: 9.0.x-dev
      label: 9.0.x
  project:
    git_repository: [email protected]:Vardot/varbase-subprofile-basic-project.git
    dev_branch:
      name: 9.0.x
      alias: 9.0.x-dev
      label: 9.0.x
target:
  profile:
    dev_branch:
      name: 1.0.x
      alias: 1.0.x-dev
      label: 1.0.x
  project:
    dev_branch:
      name: 1.0.x
      alias: 1.0.x-dev
      label: 1.0.x

Change the dev_version to mach with the target dev_branch name and alias.

Example: The CV profile

Change target dev_branch for the profile and project to 3.0.x for the CV example profile

target:
  profile:
    dev_branch:
      name: 3.0.x
      alias: 3.0.x-dev
      label: 3.0.x
  project:
    dev_branch:
      name: 3.0.x
      alias: 3.0.x-dev
      label: 3.0.x

Step #4 Generate

Run the generate command.

Example: The CV profile

In a case of creating a Varbase sub profile named "cv". Run the following commands in the local terminal:

$ bash generate-varbase-subprofile.sh "cv" "/var/www/html/products" -vvv

The following directories will be created for the new sub profile.

$ cd /var/www/html/products
$ ls -l
​
products/
 - cv/
 - cv-project/

Step #5 Public Repositories

Saving the code in a repository is important. To let Composer build the project or manage the workflow of updates over code and config changes.

Push the generated profile and project template to https://github.com or https://gitlab.com for example.

Submit them to https://packagist.org to be able to create projects or manage projects using the composer.

Commit to a new project in https://drupal.org to list the profile in the projects catalog in Drupal.org

Example: The CV profile

CV at Github.com

• ​https://github.com/Vardot/cv​

• ​https://github.com/Vardot/cv-project​

CV at Packagist.org

• ​https://packagist.org/packages/vardot/cv​

• ​https://packagist.org/packages/vardot/cv-project​

CV at Drupal.org

• ​https://www.drupal.org/project/cv​

Step #6 Changing

Have a development working directory to work on changing on generated sub profile.

Example: The CV profile

To install the development version of CV 3.0.x run this command:

composer create-project vardot/cv-project:3.0.x-dev PROJECT_DIR_NAME --stability dev --no-interaction

Commits changes over the code or configs to the cv and cv-project to the public repositories.

That will reflect on composer create-project, composer install or composer update.

CV on Github.com

Make sure that changes are updated in github.com site.

• ​https://github.com/Vardot/cv​

• ​https://github.com/Vardot/cv-project​

Do more composer create-project after committing changes and a new install for the site. To make sure that changes are working on install.

CV on Packagist.org

Make sure that changes are updated in the packagest.org site too.

• ​https://packagist.org/packages/vardot/cv​

• ​https://packagist.org/packages/vardot/cv-project​

CV on Drupal.org

Make sure that the code is synced with the project in Drupal.org site.

• ​https://www.drupal.org/project/cv​