lightning VS Thunder

Compare lightning vs Thunder 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 Support ended on November 2, 2021 and it is no longer maintained.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)

Thunder

A Drupal-based platform for professional publishers (by thunder)
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lightning Thunder
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196 43
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6.4 7.9
over 2 years ago 3 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

Thunder

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Thunder yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

docker-images - General use Docker images for projects

farmOS - farmOS: A web-based farm record keeping application.

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.

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

Drupal Commerce - Commerce 2.x development

website - The repository with source code of Druki website.

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