Useful modules during development

When developing a new Drupal 8 site, the following modules are most useful:

Drupal

composer require drupal/devel;
composer require drupal/search_kint;
composer require drupal/admin_toolbar;

Backdrop

The easiest way to start developing a Backdrop website is to install the AltaGrade Developer Stack for Backdrop.

However, it requires your local development environment to be set based on Docksal, which in turn requires Docker. So if are on some other environment and you'd like to start developing a Backdrop site from scratch, then we strongly recommend to install Brush and get the following modules installed:

brush -y en devel
brush -y en demo
brush -y en search_krumo
brush -y en coder_upgrade
brush -y en coder_review
brush -y en default_views_config

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