Kalabox is a free, integrated workflow solution for Drupal (and eventually all PHP developers). It’s the thing that connects all your things -- including your hosting account -- to provide a complete desktop-to-live workflow loop. First developed by Kalamuna as an internal tool, people all over the world now use it to code, test and go live faster than ever. Kalabox is a node-webkit app for MacOSX, Windows and Linux.
Use Your Tools, Faster
Based on Docker so devs with custom virtual environments can easily adapt their tools to Kalabox. Deploy your tools to everyone and enjoy the blazing-fast performance, configurability and portability of containers!
Cross Platform
Now works on Linux and Windows!
More Hosting Solutions
Support for Acquia, DigitalOcean, Azure and others!
Contribute to the Future of Drupal
Let’s help the Drupal community converge on a common, open-source, integrated workflow solution for Drupal that can sustain itself.
Use it, Free
Get advanced dev tools for yourself -- and help others get them, too -- for free. By supporting the Kalabox 2.0 Kickstarter, you’re helping to put powerful technology in the hands of even more people with great ideas.
We aim for official releases every two weeks, automatically packaged and ready to go but if you live on the wild side we roll development releases for every code commit.
Kalabox is built on a myriad of open source technologies and seeks to empower developers both novice and elite. For a complete rundown of the goals, underlying technology, development workflows and magic check out the Contrib Guide
In order to get started you will need to install the underlying dependencies required.
On MacOSX
If you don't have homebrew already installed go here or run ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)". Then in a terminal:
cd $HOME
brew install node
npm install -g grunt-cli bower
On Windows
You will want to start by downloading and installing git for windows and then NodeJS and then running the following things using the git bash shell.
cd $HOME
mkdir AppData/Roaming/npm #*
npm install -g grunt-cli bower
On Debian
From a terminal
cd $HOME
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
npm config set prefix ~/npm
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/npm/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
npm install -g grunt-cli bower
Windows users will want to run this from a bash shell like git bash not command.exe.
git clone https://github.com/kalabox/kalabox.git $HOME/kalabox
cd $HOME/kalabox
npm install
grunt run
If you want to try this with new code just return to $HOME/kalabox and run git pull. You can also replace $HOME if you have a preferred location for project code. We are using $HOME because it should be cross-OS compatible.
We assume you've downloaded your kalabox source into $HOME/kalabox.
cd $HOME/kalabox
npm install
grunt build
Kalabox binary should be in $HOME/kalabox/built/(kalabox-linux32-dev.tar.gz|kalabox-linux64-dev.tar.gz|kalabox-osx-dev.tar.gz|kalabox-win-dev.zip)
If you want to try this with new code just return to $HOME/kalabox and run git pull and then grunt build --force
Kalabox uses a github flow variant for code contribution which focues heavily on testing and continuous integration/deployment. Users will handle version bumping based on these guidelines. Generally we try to follow agile methodologies regarding issue resolution.
An example workflow for contributing code to a particular issue is something like this:
- Fork the kalabox project through the UI at
https://github.com/kalabox/kalabox git clone [email protected]:pirog/kalabox.git $HOME/kalabox
cd $HOME/kalabox
git checkout master
git checkout -b issuenumber-someonesbug
**CODE CHANGES OCCUR**
git add .
git commit -m "#ISSUENUMBER: my fix message"
grunt version
git push origin issuenumber-someonesbug
You can chat with us on IRC in the ##kalabox channel on irc.freenode.net
kalabox's code in this repo uses the MIT license, see our LICENSE.txt file.
The work is being sponsored by:
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent