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## Varbase: The Ultimate Drupal CMS Starter Kit (Bootstrap Ready)

The powerful Drupal distribution for faster development, with editor experience
in mind. Brought to you by [Vardot](https://www.vardot.com/).

Varbase is an enhanced Drupal distribution with a lot of necessities.
Necessities are all the modules, features, configurations that we include
in every project.


## It's made with the following benefits in mind:

* Speeds up development.
* Offers standardized configuration and best-practices.
* Comes with a lot of needed functionalities/modules for every-day Drupal site.
* [Tested, tested, and tested.](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Vardot/varbase)

Starting a new project? Consider **Varbase** for **Drupal 11**.
Installing **Varbase `10.1.x`** comes with several extra automated installation
steps, to take full advantage of Varbase, other than the **Drupal 11** installation
instructions.


# Install with Composer


To install the most recent stable release of **Varbase `10.1.x`** run this command:
```
composer create-project Vardot/varbase-project:10.1.0-rc1 PROJECT_DIR_NAME --no-dev --no-interaction
```

To install the dev version of **Varbase `10.1.x`** run this command:
```
composer create-project vardot/varbase-project:10.1.x-dev PROJECT_DIR_NAME --stability dev --no-interaction
```

## [Create a new Vartheme sub theme for a project](https://github.com/Vardot/varbase/tree/10.1.x/scripts/README.md)

## [Automated Functional Testing](https://github.com/Vardot/varbase/blob/10.1.x/tests/README.md)

## [Varbase 10.1.x Developer Guide](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/v/10.1.x)

## [CHANGELOG for Varbase](https://github.com/Vardot/varbase/blob/10.1.x/CHANGELOG.md)

## [Varbase Gherkin features](https://github.com/Vardot/varbase/blob/10.1.x/tests/features/varbase/README.md)

## [Varbase Developer Guide](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/v/10.1.x/developers)

## [General instructions on how to update Varbase](https://github.com/Vardot/varbase/blob/10.1.x/UPDATE.md)

## [Local development with DDEV](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/v/10.1.x/developers/installing-varbase/installing-varbase-with-ddev)

1. Install DDEV locally, steps for installing can be found [here](https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
2. Run `ddev start`.

## Remote Development Environment (IDE)
> - [Gitpod](https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/vardot/varbase-project)
> - [Tugboat.qa](https://www.tugboatqa.com)

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Sponsored and developed by [Vardot](https://www.drupal.org/vardot).
