drush VS lightning

Compare drush vs lightning and see what are their differences.

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. (by drush-ops)

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 Support ended on November 2, 2021 and it is no longer maintained.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)
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drush lightning
4 3
2,324 196
0.3% -
9.1 6.4
6 days ago over 2 years ago
PHP PHP
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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drush

Posts with mentions or reviews of drush. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-05.
  • Drupal 6 on Raspberry Pi
    2 projects | /r/drupal | 5 Sep 2022
    wget https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/8.3.6/drush.phar
  • Deploying local development changes to the server
    1 project | /r/drupal | 15 Jun 2022
    With CSS changes, you'll usually want to clear cache (assuming your CSS is aggregated). You can do this by running drush cr. You can find info on Drush at https://www.drush.org/
  • Wordpress to Drupal advice
    1 project | /r/drupal | 16 Nov 2021
    look up https://drupalconsole.com/ and https://www.drush.org/
  • Drupal Deep
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021
    Drush + drush make - 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.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Thunder - A Drupal-based platform for professional publishers

console - Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

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

website - The repository with source code of Druki website.

docker-images - General use Docker images for projects

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.

docker-compose-drupal - Drupal 8 Docker Compose dev stack.

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