Installing Drupal Commerce 2 using Lando

Josh Miller shows you how to install Drupal Commerce 2 using Lando, a local development tool in this video. Further instructions are below the video.

Timestamps:

1. Commerce Kickstart download: 0:51
2. “composer install” command: 8:00
3. “lando init” command: 12:56
4. “lando start” command: 15:06
5. “Drupal install” screen: 17:04
6. “lando stop” command: 21:18

Prerequisites:

1. Download and install Composer
2. Download and install Lando

Code generated during this video:

https://github.com/AcroMedia/install-commerce-lando 

Installing Drupal Commerce 2 locally using Commerce Kickstart, Composer, and Lando

Getting Drupal up and running on your computer is an essential first step as an evaluator. The good news is that there’s a lot of technology that makes this easier than ever before. We will walk you through how to install Commerce 2 using the Kickstart resource, Composer, and Lando. 

1. Download and install Composer
2. Download and install Lando
3. Next, go to Commerce Kickstart to create and download your customized composer.json file.
   
   Visit Commerce Kickstart
   
   
    
4. Run ‘composer install’
   
   
    
5. Run ‘lando init’
   
   
    
6. Run ‘lando start’
   
   
    
7. Visit your local URL and install Drupal
   
   
    
8. Start building!
   
   

What is Drupal Commerce

Drupal Commerce is an ecommerce focused subset of tools and a community based on the open source content management system called Drupal. Drupal Commerce allows you to sell just about anything to anyone using a myriad of open source technologies and leveraging hundreds of Drupal modules built to make that thing you need do that thing you want.

We use Commerce Kickstart to get things started.

Try the Commerce Kickstart 2.x Installer

What is Composer

Composer is the PHP dependency manager that can not only build and bring in Drupal, Drupal Commerce, and Symfony but is the technology behind the newest Drupal Commerce Kickstart distribution. We leverage the composer.json file that commercekickstart.com gives us to bring in all of the Drupal code necessary to run a Drupal Commerce website.

To get started, we run “composer install” and that command brings in all the requirements for our project.

What is Docker

Docker is virtualization software that brings together App services like Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Solr, Memcache, and many other technologies so that it can run on your computer. This installation video uses a tool that runs on top of Docker in an abstract, and frankly easier, way.

If you want to learn more about Docker and the many different types of tools that run on top of it, we recommend John Kennedy’s 2018 Drupalcon presentation about Docker.

Another great resource that compares using Docker tools is Michael Anello’s take on the various technologies.

What is Lando

Lando is a thin abstraction layer of tools on top of Docker that makes creating an environment as easy as “lando init” followed by “lando start.” Lando keeps the often confusing DevOps work of creating a local virtual environment to a few very well-documented variable settings that it turns into full docker-compose scripts that Docker, in turn, uses to create a local environment where everything just works together. We’re very excited to see how Lando and Drupal Commerce start to work together.