Acquia Developer Studio (from now on ADS), is a tool that my colleagues at Acquia have been working hard to release. I could say that it’s going to be the new Acquia Dev Desktop, but to be more precise, I'll use the official description from the Acquia docs site:
Acquia Developer Studio integrates many of the tools developers need to build better digital experiences, and to also be more productive. With Acquia Developer Studio, you can focus on building the best Drupal websites by using the tools you already know.
Source: https://docs.acquia.com/dev-studio/
Now let’s cut the chit chat and jump straight away into the arena:
Step 0. Installing ADS:
Now for the next step you'll have the option to use Drupalvm or Lando. In my case I'll use Lando, because it's the recommended way and because I want to compare this with the amazing DDEV (if you've read my previous posts you know already I am a big fan). After a few minutes you'll have your site ready:
BOOM!!! Just one command and we have a new Drupal site available. How does that compare to our old days of configuring MAMP, vagrant machines, ansible... Oh God, I feel old...
As I was saying, your new Drupal site is now available locally, accessible via an url like this one:
[PROJECT NAME].lndo.site
ie: webpsite.lndo.site
Now it all comes down to use a combination of ads commands and lando, in case you want to ssh, etc. For example:
For a grasp of what you can do with Acquia Developer Studio do:
All power of Drupal combined with BLT plus Lightning and Lando. What's not to love?
There is a huge lot more that you can do with BLT and ADS, but I'll leave that for a next article in the ADS series :-).
NOTE: Just remember that right now (August 2019), Acquia Developer Studio is in Beta. Try it at your own risk and, if you have any feedback, the ADS team will love to receive it: devstudio[AT]acquia.com :-)