Mastering Drupal 8

Using Composer to create a Drupal project

One of the most common uses for Composer is the ability to create a PHP project. The create-project command takes several arguments, including the type of PHP project we want to build, the location where we want to install the project, and, optionally, the package version. Using this command, we no longer need to manually download Drupal and extract the contents into an install directory. We can speed up the entire process using one simple command.

Begin by opening a Terminal window and navigating to the folder where we want to install Drupal. Next, we can use Composer to execute the following command:

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev mastering --stability dev --no-interaction ...