About nystudio107/craft

This is an alternate scaffolding package for Craft 3 CMS projects to Pixel & Tonic's canonical craftcms/craft package.

The project is based on Craft CMS using a unique templates/_boilerplate system for web/AJAX/AMP pages, and implements a number of technologies/techniques:

• Docker Docker is used for local development; see Setting Up Local Dev below for details
• A base Twig templating setup as described in An Effective Twig Base Templating Setup
• webpack 5 is used for the build system as per An Annotated webpack 4 Config for Frontend Web Development
• TypeScript for strictly typed JavaScript code
• Vue.js 3.0 is used for some of the interactive bits on the website, and Vue.js 3.x allows us to leverage the Composition API
• Tailwind CSS for the site-wide CSS using the @tailwindcss/jit
• JSON-LD structured data as per Annotated JSON-LD Structured Data Examples
• Google AMP versions of the podcast episode and other pages
• Image transforms are done via a Serverless Image Handler lambda function, as described in the Setting Up Your Own Image Transform Service article
• Static assets are stored in AWS S3 buckets with CloudFront as the CDN, as per the Setting Up AWS S3 Buckets + CloudFront CDN for your Assets article
• Implements a Service Worker via Google's Workbox as per Service Workers and Offline Browsing
• Critical CSS as per Implementing Critical CSS on your website
• Frontend error handling as per Handling Errors Gracefully in Craft CMS
• A custom site module as per Enhancing a Craft CMS 3 Website with a Custom Module
• CLI-based queue as per Robust queue job handling in Craft CMS
• FastCGI Static Cache as per Static Page Caching with Craft CMS
• buddy.works atomic deployments

...and probably a bunch of other stuff too.

The following Craft CMS plugins are used on this site:

• FastCGI Cache Bust - to bust the FastCGI cache whenever entries are modified
• ImageOptimize - for the optimized images and srcsets used on the site
• Minify - to minify the HTML and inline JS/CSS
• Retour - for setting up 404 redirects
• SEOmatic - for handling site-side SEO
• Twigpack - for loading webpack-generated manifest.json resources in a modern way
• Typogrify - for smart quotes and other typographic ligatures
• Webperf - for monitoring web performance

You can read more about it in the Setting up a New Craft 3 CMS Project article.

Using nystudio107/craft

This project package works exactly the way Pixel & Tonic's craftcms/craft package works; you create a new project by first creating & installing the project:

composer create-project nystudio107/craft PATH --no-install

Make sure that PATH is the path to your project, including the name you want for the project, e.g.:

composer create-project nystudio107/craft craft3 --no-install

We use --no-install so that the composer packages for the root project are not installed.

Setting Up Local Dev

You'll need Docker desktop for your platform installed to run the project in local development

• Set up a .env file in the cms/ directory, based off of the provided example.env
• Set up a .env.sh. file in the scripts/ directory, based off of the provided example.env.sh
• Start up the site by typing make dev in terminal in the project's root directory (the first build will be somewhat lengthy)
• Navigate to http://localhost:8000 to use the site; the webpack-dev-server runs off of http://localhost:8080

Wait until you see the following to indicate that the PHP container is ready:

php_1         | Craft is installed.
php_1         | Applying changes from your project config files ... done
php_1         | [01-Dec-2020 18:38:46] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 22
php_1         | [01-Dec-2020 18:38:46] NOTICE: ready to handle connections

...and the following to indicate that the webpack container is ready:

webpack_1     | <i> devmode-fm (webpack 5.9.0) compiled successfully in 12097 ms
webpack_1     | <i> [webpack-dev-middleware] Child "devmode-fm": Compiled successfully.

The CP login credentials are initially set as follows:

Login: [email protected]
Password: letmein

Obviously change these to whatever you like as needed.

Build the production assets by typing make build to build the critical CSS, fonts, and other production assets. They will appear in cms/web/dist/ (just double-click on the report-legacy.html and report-modern.html files to view them).

N.B.: Without authorization & credentials (which are private), the make pulldb will not work (it just runs scripts/docker_pull_db.sh). It's provided here for instructional purposes.

Makefile Project Commands

This project uses Docker to shrink-wrap the devops it needs to run around the project.

To make using it easier, we're using a Makefile and the built-in make utility to create local aliases. You can run the following from terminal in the project directory:

• make dev - starts up the local dev server listening on http://localhost:8000/
• make build - builds the static assets via the webpack 5 buildchain
• make clean - shuts down the Docker containers, removes any mounted volumes (including the database), and then rebuilds the containers from scratch
• make composer xxx - runs the composer command passed in, e.g. make composer install
• make npm xxx - runs the npm command passed in, e.g. make npm install
• make pulldb - runs the scripts/docker_pull_db.sh script to pull a remote database into the database container; the scripts/.env.sh must be set up first
• make restoredb xxx - runs the scripts/docker_restore_db.sh script to restore a local database dump into the database container; the scripts/.env.sh must be set up first

Other notes

To update to the latest Composer packages (as constrained by the cms/composer.json semvers), do:

rm cms/composer.lock
make dev

To update to the latest npm packages (as constrained by the buildchain/package.json semvers), do:

rm buildchain/package-lock.json
make dev

To use Xdebug with VSCode install the PHP Debug extension and use the following configuration in your .vscode/launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Listen for Xdebug",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "port": 9003,
            "log": true,
            "externalConsole": false,
            "pathMappings": {
                "/var/www/project/cms": "${workspaceRoot}/cms"
            },
            "ignore": ["**/vendor/**/*.php"]
        }
    ]
}

Below is the entire intact, unmodified README.md from Pixel & Tonic's craftcms/craft:

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About Craft CMS

Craft is a flexible and scalable CMS for creating bespoke digital experiences on the web and beyond.

It features:

• An intuitive Control Panel for administration tasks and content creation.
• A clean-slate approach to content modeling and front-end development.
• A built-in Plugin Store with hundreds of free and commercial plugins.
• A robust framework for module and plugin development.

Learn more about it at craftcms.com.

Tech Specs

Craft is written in PHP (7+), and built on the Yii 2 framework. It can connect to MySQL (5.5+) and PostgreSQL (9.5+) for content storage.

Installation

See the following documentation pages for help installing Craft 3:

• Server Requirements
• Installation Instructions
• Upgrading from Craft 2

Popular Resources

• Documentation – Read the official docs.
• Guides – Follow along with the official guides.
• #craftcms – See the latest tweets about Craft.
• Discord – Meet the community.
• Stack Exchange – Get help and help others.
• CraftQuest – Watch unlimited video lessons and courses.
• Craft Link List – Stay in-the-know.
• nystudio107 Blog – Learn Craft and modern web development.