The latest articles on DEV Community by Bhavin Joshi (@bhavinhjoshi). https://dev.to/bhavinhjoshi https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F467353%2F989d8cc3-5414-4c42-a042-4cf38dfeb746.jpg https://dev.to/bhavinhjoshi en Bhavin Joshi Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:17:06 +0000 https://dev.to/bhavinhjoshi/update-to-drupal-8-8-in-five-minutes-37g9 https://dev.to/bhavinhjoshi/update-to-drupal-8-8-in-five-minutes-37g9 <p>Before you start with the update, make sure you take backup of your website (code base &amp; DB) or preferably, carry out this process on a staging site or on your local Drupal 8 set up. For this, it is assumed that you have composer installed for your Drupal 8 environment.</p> <h1> Modify compser.json </h1> <p>The first step is to modify composer.json manually.</p> <ol> <li><p>Unset / empty <code>“replace”: {},</code></p></li> <li><p>Remove <code>"merge-plugin"</code> entirely.</p></li> <li><p>Append <code>“App\\”: “app/”, “”: ”src/”</code> to <code>“autoload”</code></p></li> </ol> <p>Once you are done with modifying the composer.json, it is time to execute a few commands with composer on CLI.<br> Execute composer commands<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>composer remove webflo/drupal-core-strict --no-update composer remove drupal/core --no-update composer require 'composer/installers:^1.7' --no-update rm composer.lock rm -rf core rm -rf vendor composer require drupal/core-recommended:^8.8 --update-with-dependencies </code></pre></div> <p>Now, sit back and relax while composer performs the update. Once the updates are downloaded, it is time to perform the db updates using drush updb. Congratulations! You have successfully updated your existing Drupal 8 website to 8.8 and you are now ready for Drupal 9!</p> tutorial codepen webdev opensource