Front End Tooling for Backdrop CMS
Sharpening your tools is an important part of any developers life cycle and can help you deliver solid, maintainable sites using best practices, efficiently and on budget. The tools I'll discuss in this post:
Pantheon + Terminus + Drush + Backdrop CMS Development Workflow
Use case: Develop Backdrop sites and be able to continuously deploy patches, updates and features cleanly and easily on Pantheon. We, the Backdrop Community, hope to offer Backdrop local drush out of the box in the near future, but for now here are the steps to get you going on Pantheon, Terminus, Drush and Backdrop CMS right now!
Install Backdrop CMS with terminus:
Introducing Kalabox for Warpspeed Backdrop Development
Stardate 47634.44: We’ve encountered the Backdrop CMS, and found it to be the fastest way to make a flexible and modern website. Using the code and concepts we know from Drupal 7, it optimizes web development for 2016.
However, we are perplexed why our development workflows are still archaic and barbaric. To right this wrong, we must violate the Prime Directive and bring technology from the future.
Kalabox. Engage.
Dealing with Drush
Working with Backdrop and multiple versions of Drupal and trying to use Drush with all of them? Check out this handy guide to installing multiple versions of Drush side-by-side and automatically using the right one for each of your projects.