drupal/varbase_project

Project template for Varbase distribution.

11.0.0 2026-04-29 17:20 UTC

Requires

• composer/composer: ^2.9
• composer/installers: ^2.3
• cweagans/composer-patches: ~2.0
• drupal/core: ~11.3.0
• drupal/core-composer-scaffold: ~11.3
• drupal/core-project-message: ~11.3
• drupal/core-recipe-unpack: ~11.3
• drupal/core-recommended: ~11.3
• drupal/core-vendor-hardening: ~11.3
• drush/drush: ~13
• vardot/varbase: ~11.0.0
• vardot/varbase-patches: ~11.0.0

Conflicts

• drupal/drupal: *

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Vardot

README

Varbase 11.0.0-alpha2

Varbase: The Ultimate Drupal CMS Starter Kit (Bootstrap Ready)

The powerful Drupal distribution for faster development, with editor experience in mind. Brought to you by Vardot.

Varbase is an enhanced Drupal distribution with a lot of necessities. Necessities are all the modules, features, configurations that we include in every project.

It's made with the following benefits in mind:

• Speeds up development.
• Offers standardized configuration and best-practices.
• Comes with a lot of needed functionalities/modules for every-day Drupal site.
• Tested, tested, and tested.

Starting a new project? Consider Varbase for Drupal 11. Installing Varbase 11.0.x comes with several extra automated installation steps, to take full advantage of Varbase, other than the Drupal 11 installation instructions.

Install with Composer

To install the most recent stable release of Varbase 11.0.x run this command:

composer create-project drupal/varbase_project:~11.0.0 PROJECT_DIR_NAME --no-dev --no-interaction

To install the dev version of Varbase 11.0.x run this command:

composer create-project drupal/varbase_project:11.0.x-dev PROJECT_DIR_NAME --stability dev --no-interaction

Automated Functional Testing

Varbase 11.0.x Developer Guide

CHANGELOG for Varbase

Varbase Gherkin features

Varbase Developer Guide

Local development with DDEV

1. Install DDEV locally, steps for installing can be found here.
2. Run ddev start.
3. Install Varbase: ddev install-varbase full or ddev install-varbase minimal.

DDEV Commands

Command	Description
ddev install-varbase minimal\|full	Install Varbase from scratch with Drupal recipes
ddev init-full-automated-testing	Install (if needed) + recipes + test users + site prep
ddev init-minimal-automated-testing	Test users + site prep on an already installed site
ddev add-testing-users	Add testing user accounts
ddev delete-testing-users	Remove testing user accounts

Remote Development Environment (IDE)

• Gitpod

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