lightning VS drupal-project

Compare lightning vs drupal-project and see what are their differences.

lightning

Lightning was a base distribution for fast and feature-rich Drupal. Support ended on November 2, 2021 and it is no longer maintained. (by acquia)

drupal-project

:rocket: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project" (by drupal-composer)
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lightning drupal-project
3 4
196 1,552
- 0.3%
6.4 4.9
over 2 years ago 16 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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

drupal-project

Posts with mentions or reviews of drupal-project. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-11.
  • RuntimeExceptions during local Drupal 9 install with Lando
    1 project | /r/drupal | 4 Dec 2022
    1) increasing timeout to 6000 as per https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project/issues/197
  • Drupal 9 and git
    1 project | /r/drupal | 16 Sep 2021
    Check out typical .gitignore files for Drupal. Like https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project/blob/9.x/.gitignore
  • Drupal and git - please tell me your way?
    3 projects | /r/drupal | 11 Sep 2021
    IF, you are using composer on your deployment targets… The only thing you need to store in git is your composer.json and composer.lock files, AND the /modules/custom/ directory and /themes/custom/ directory. (There’s some other tangentel files, like .gitignore and some other stuff you want in GIT, but it’s a MUCH smaller repository, since you don’t need to move around ALL of the files. Are you using something like this : https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project ?
  • A minimal Drupal 9 local development environment
    7 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021
    To update the Drupal core, it is slightly different than the Composer template for Drupal projects way to go, if you are used to it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lightning and drupal-project you can also consider the following projects:

Thunder - A Drupal-based platform for professional publishers

GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool

blt - Acquia's toolset for automating Drupal 10 development, testing, and deployment.

docker-images - General use Docker images for projects

phan - Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

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.

PHP Mess Detector - PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

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

lando - A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

website - The repository with source code of Druki website.

refnav - Forked sandbox module for entity reference backreference tokens