lightning vs blt

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lightning		blt
	Project
3	Mentions	1
196	Stars	442
-	Growth	0.7%
6.4	Activity	8.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	25 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lightning

Posts with mentions or reviews of lightning. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-14.

Acquia cms?
2 projects | /r/drupal | 14 Jan 2022

I advise you, and anyone else reading this, NOT to try fumbling your way through uninstalling Lightning -- there is a specific procedure that needs to be followed. Profile Switcher is part of that procedure, but there are multiple other steps. See https://github.com/acquia/lightning/wiki/Uninstalling-Lightning.
Removing acquia lightning without removing the dependency modules?
1 project | /r/drupal | 28 Sep 2021

The official Lightning uninstall process does the same overall thing -- it has you remove the distribution, but not the support modules. Only the distribution is being end-of-lifed. See https://github.com/acquia/lightning/wiki/Uninstalling-Lightning

blt

Posts with mentions or reviews of blt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Best Drupal training for developers new to Drupal
1 project | /r/drupal | 31 May 2021

if you have a solid understanding of site building, the last aspect i would focus on is your deployment/devops workflow. This is a large part of drupal projects which often involves pipelines & automated testing. There are varying opinions of the best approach here, but for me, i always use an existing framework to assist - ex: https://github.com/acquia/blt.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lightning and blt you can also consider the following projects:

Thunder - A Drupal-based platform for professional publishers

docker-images - General use Docker images for projects

drupal-project - :rocket: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project"

drush - Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

next-drupal - Next.js for Drupal has everything you need to build a next-generation front-end for your Drupal site: SSG, SSR, and ISR, Multi-site, Authentication, Webforms, Search API, I18n and Preview mode (works with JSON:API and GraphQL).

phpstan-drupal - Extension for PHPStan to allow analysis of Drupal code.

website - The repository with source code of Druki website.

drupal-check - Check Drupal code for deprecations and discover bugs via static analysis

refnav - Forked sandbox module for entity reference backreference tokens