BLT¶

Features¶

Acquia BLT offers the following features for your organization’s use:

• Local Git hooks: Evaluate formatting, syntax, and compliance with Drupal coding standards.
• Testing frameworks: Provides default configurations for Behat and PHPUnit.
• Project automation tasks: Includes commands for syncing environments, compiling front-end assets, and executing tests.
• Deployment artifact generation: Includes building production-only dependencies and sanitizing production-environment code.
• Continuous integration and deployment tools: Supports both the Cloud Platform pipelines feature and Travis CI.

Getting started¶

To get started with Acquia BLT, review Acquia BLT installation instructions, and then review the following usage documentation:

• Onboarding with Acquia BLT: How to get started on project work.
• Repository architecture: How code is organized, and why.
• Project tasks: How to complete tasks on your local computer.
• Automated testing: How to write and run tests, and why you should care.
• Deployment workflow
• Continuous integration

Video tutorials¶

• Deploying to Cloud Platform
• E-learning material

Releases and versioning¶

Acquia BLT releases follow semantic versioning. Major releases will contain backwards-incompatible changes to commands and configuration, while minor and patch releases will always be backwards-compatible.

Contributing to Acquia BLT¶

If you would like to help improve Acquia BLT, file issues from its GitHub issue queue. For contribution guidelines and instructions, see Contributing to Acquia BLT.

License¶

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.