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Sync Drupal modules based on a defined scope. Scopes are arbitrary but in most cases they're setup to match different environments, which are usually invoked based on different build processes that need to take place. The appropriate module(s) will be synced (installed/uninstalled) based on the scope definition that are defined in a YAML configuration.

Dependencies

• Drush
• Drupal 8

Similar Concept

• Master - Drupal 7

Getting Started

First, you'll need to download the drush-module-sync library using composer:

composer require droath/drush-module-sync

Next, you need to create a module-sync configuration file. This can be done by executing the following command:

drush module-sync-generate

Once invoked, the command will prompt for input as it generates your module-sync.yml configuration. When adding scopes I usually input both local and stage, as those are common environments that require different modules to be installed or uninstalled. By default the module-sync.yml file will be generated in the Drupal site path, which is usually path-to-drupal/sites/default if you're not using a multi-site configuration.

You can set the save path to a different directory, by providing the --path option.

drush module-sync-generate --path=../configs

Now you can edit the module-sync.yml configuration that was generated. You can define different modules for each scope modules directive:

scope:
  stage:
    extend_base: true
    modules:
      - file_stage_proxy
  local:
    extend_base: true
    modules:
      - devel
      - file_stage_proxy
base:
  - field
  - views
  ...

As you can see the scope can extend from the base directive, as this is useful to remove module redundancy between multiple scopes. If you don't want to extend from the base, just set extend_base to false. Make sure to remove any modules from the base directive if you only want that module to be installed for a particular scope, which should already been defined.

Finally, after you've tweaked your module-sync configurations to your liking you can run the following command to execute the sync process.

drush module-sync --scope=local

Note: You can pass along the --yes|-y flag to confirm all prompts.

The command will evaluate what modules that have already been installed or need to be uninstalled for the given scope. Make sure you only run this command with the --yes flag when your certain all modules have been accounted for, as you could have undesired consequences.