How to create a local install with DDEV

I also saw some issues setting ddev up in the flow you've described, I wonder if the issue is with configuring ddev before the project files are pulled down.

ddev:
1. mkdir my-localgov-site
2. cd my-localgov-site
3. composer create localgovdrupal/localgov-project
4. cd localgov-project
5. ddev config
6. Use defaults
7. ddev start

Perhaps ddev could be bundled in with the project alongside Lando?

DDEV is offered in addition to Lando. The project mentioned `composer create localgovdrupal/localgov-project` includes https://github.com/localgovdrupal/localgov_project/tree/3.x/.ddev

That would explain the issue in the OP, there's a mismatch in the ddev config thats pulled down and the config thats generated by ddev when creating a new project.

In which case, the flow should just be

1. mkdir my-localgov-site
2.cd my-localgov-site
3.composer create localgovdrupal/localgov-project
4.cd localgov-project
5.ddev start

I thought there was no documentation on how to use this distribution with ddev, but I see that the documentation is very complete! I will add a link to the documentation in my issue, but anyway, maybe this issue is not so necessary.

Wouldn't it be better to use the Composer included in DDEV, as seen in the DDEV Drupal Quickstart? (and not require Composer on the host machine)

Something like this:

mkdir localgov && cd localgov
ddev config --project-type=drupal --php-version=8.3 --docroot=web
ddev start
ddev composer create localgovdrupal/localgov-project
ddev drush site:install localgov -y

Install the demo content, and generate a log in link:

ddev drush in localgov_demo -y
ddev drush uli

Alternatively, if the .ddev folder and config from the project is needed, you can instead do this:

git clone https://github.com/localgovdrupal/localgov_project localgov_git
mkdir localgov
cd localgov
cp -r ../localgov_git/.ddev .

PS. I added LocalGov Drupal to the Drupal distributions page: https://www.drupal.org/docs/getting-started/drupal-distributions/localgo... →