Composer
Update a project installed via composer_manager or drush to a CI based Composer template under Drupal VM
If you have to go for a Drupal core update from a previous install based on composer_manager or drush (both deprecated), consider installing something robust, Composer friendly, that excludes vendor and core for a lightweight repository and enables CI and automation tools like Phing, Behat, PHPUnit, CodeSniffer, ...
If you don't have Drupal VM installed, head to the documentation.
Drupal 8 custom Google Maps and automatic geocoding with Composer, Drupal Console and Drush
The scope of this article is to illustrate the responsibilities of several tools and techniques used in the Drupal ecosystem (Composer, Drupal Console, Drush, Configuration management) to achieve quickly a simple custom Google Maps use case: an Address field will be defined on a content type.
We want the address to be geocoded automatically for each node on save to display a Google Map.
The display of the map will be achieved by a custom module to allow further extension.
Install and update Drupal 8 core and contrib modules with Composer
Some modules, like Address or Search API Solr, really needs an installation with Composer.
We should now avoid to rely on Composer Manager (deprecated) so here is a kickstart.