Coming from drupal 7 optimizing drupal 8-9 for local development is a struggle especially if you want to properly optimize your local environment in terms of enabling debugging and disabling cache for a while. The steps are not a lot but there are some "tricky" settings for having a constant local workflow. So after a lot of testing, settings reviewing and debugging this is what i have learned so far.
Step 1: Find,edit and enable your settings.local.php
- Copy and Rename /sites/settings.example.local.php -> /sites/default/settings.local.php
- Uncomment the following lines in your settings.php file:
# if (file_exists(__DIR__ . '/settings.local.php')) { # include __DIR__ . '/settings.local.php'; # }In your sites/default/settings.local.php file, uncomment the following:# $settings['cache']['bins']['render'] = 'cache.backend.null'; - Rebuild your local site configuration by visiting 127.0.0.1:888/d8test/web/rebuild.php or your-website.local/rebuild or whatever else is your current local dev ip or domain name.
Step 2: Disable Twig Cache and Enable Debugging
Copy and rename development.services.yml to development.local.services.yml and add the follow settings-params to development.local.services.yml (this way everytime you run composer update or composer require etc you won't have to enter the following twig cache settings to development.services.yml.
parameters:
http.response.debug_cacheability_headers: true
twig.config:
debug: true
auto_reload: true
be careful to follow the spaces here otherwise the .yml file will not run properly or give you an error.
Clear Cache and then verify Twig debugging has been enabled by refreshing your Drupal 8 homepage. Review your source code and you should see something similar to :
Now you know how and where to find all the twig templates you need for your custom theming.
Happy theming!
