Week 4 - Playground:  Acquia Lighting for Drupal 8

Week 4 - Playground: Acquia Lighting for Drupal 8

I'm trying to see if I can use Lightning as the base profile for a future site that I want to create. So far, I'm on step 0, trying to understand how Drupal 8 with composer works. I want to ensure that I can create a development environment, push to a testing server, and from testing to staging and then staging to production.

I hope to document my findings in this blog so that I can share my experience.

References:

Composer-based installer
https://github.com/acquia/lightning-project#get-started

Lightning Releases on Github
https://github.com/acquia/lightning/releases

How to Update Lightning
https://github.com/acquia/lightning/blob/8.x-4.x/UPDATE.md