Download node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/ (download recommended version). This should also download npm (node package manager).

The GUI did work but I had to close and re-open the command prompt in order to see that. 

Check that npm has been installed with npm -v. 

Nav to correct directory and go through npm init.

npm will have created a bunch of files - the package.json file will appear in the directory.

Based on info from https://drupalize.me/tutorial/configure-your-environment-theme-development?p=2512

Disable render caching and JavaScript/CSS aggregation

Today I've been trying to get the local LPN site set up with some extensions on VSCode so that we can use this to compile Sass and see changes to theming immediately in the browser.

I've followed Nigel's instructions at http://178.128.162.13/oyster/node/954

Currently I've got to the point where I want to get the extension to open the site in the browser, so I can start the application watching and compiling sass, but for some reason it is currently opening the directory and not loading the site:

This is day 2 of me trying to get Gulp and Sass working for the LPN local development environment. I had to give up yesterday due to a problem with ddev which seems to be resolved for now (but for just how long...) See first attempt at this.

Today I've got as far as installing gulp in the custom theme folder using sudo npm install gulp

When trying to run gulp I'm not confronted with:

module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Today I am trying to get Gulp to watch my sass changes for the LPN development environment, so that I can start branching theme changes and push them to our remote repo on Github.

I'm following Nigel's instructions re. Gulp at http://178.128.162.13/oyster/node/875

1. I used ddev describe to get the port

2. used sudo nano on gulpfile.js but I couldn't see which line 30 was so opened this up in Visual Studio Code which gave me the line numbers. Pasted the post in here:

settings.local.php calls sites/development.services.yml. Edit this and add to the parameters stanza, as follows

parameters:

  http.response.debug_cacheability_headers: true

  twig.config:

    debug: true

    auto-reload: true

    cache: false

----

This disables cache and provides twig template annotation for debugging when using dev tools in the browser:

Notes on LPN Dev environment set up following Nigel’s instructions:

http://178.128.162.13/oyster/node/875

At ddev start:

Failed to start lpn: web container failed: log=phpstatus FAILED, err=container /ddev-lpn-web unhealthy: phpstatus FAILED

Am attempting to update ddev to see it this will help matters. First I am doing ddev stop.

My local site's version of drupal core is out of date - my live / production site seems to have automatic updates running so is already on 8.6.13.

To update my local version:

Currently my drupal blog has the basic Bartik 8.6.10 theme set as it's default, so let's change that. I want to change this on the local version of my site first, and then deploy the changes via my Github repo. However! Because contributed themes and modules are handled by Composer, we don't actually want to submit any of the theme files to the repo; just the instructions of where to get it from for composer to run. (I *think* that if I went ahead and made a child theme locally, this code would be submitted to my repo, but I guess I'll come on to that later...)

403 Forbidden nginx on local site

Permissions might not be set correctly for the directory?

I think in ddev I possibly hadn’t specificed ‘drupal8’ when doing ddev config, so just went through config again.

‘No input file specified.’

https://www.drupal.org/node/2110647

Try going to /install.php