Working with Gitpod

Gitpod is a cloud development environment. Using Gitpod can help you get LocalGov Drupal up and running quickly, without needing to set up a local development environment. It's more like a local development environment than a production environment, and is intended for you to try out LocalGov Drupal, not for running live websites.

Before you start

  1. Sign up for gitpod.io, if you haven't already.

Try it out:

  1. Click on the "Open in Gitpod" button below

Open in Gitpod

  1. Your environment is being prepared, wait about a minute.
  2. VSCode code editor will be displayed.
  3. Various commands will run in the terminal at the bottom of the screen. Wait for these to complete.
  4. You'll get a link to your LocalGov Drupal site in a message like this. Ctrl-click the long link to open the LocalGov Drupal website in a new tab
Project can be reached at https://8080-essexcounty-localgovpro-i5qq2u8hn9l.ws-eu81.gitpod.io
  1. Log in with the credentials admin and admin.

If you later make the site public, make sure you change the username and password - otherwise anyone with the link could control your site. By default, the project is not made public, so this is not an issue.

Adding demo content

The LocalGov Drupal demo content showcases a lot of the content types in LocalGov Drupal. Enabling this will make your website look like https://demo.localgovdrupal.org. To do this:

  1. Go to the Gitpod window
  2. In the terminal at the bottom of the page, type ddev drush en localgov_demo

Installing modules and testing branches

Our how to guides include step by step instructions for installing new Drupal modules and testing LGD work in progress.