How does one handle custom modules in 7.x?

[dsdeiz]

Hi!

I think unlike Drupal 8, modules can be stored just inside the modules/ directory. I'm wondering how I should handle this in the 7.x branch? All packages would be inside web so I guess if I have custom modules I could put them inside web/sites/all/modules/custom though what's going to happen now is that if I track these custom modules in git, I need to track the files inside web - specifically web/sites/all/modules/custom/* (and I was hoping to completely ignore the web directory). Would like to know what's a clean approach for this.

[tobiasbaehr]

You can do it so:
(preserve-paths is for derhasi/composer-preserve-paths)

"installer-paths": {
      "web/": ["type:drupal-core"],
      "web/sites/all/modules/custom/my_custom_module/": ["vendor/my_custom_module"],
      "web/sites/all/themes/custom/my_custom_theme/": ["vendor/my_custom_theme"],
      "web/sites/all/modules/contrib/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-module"],
      "web/sites/all/themes/contrib/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-theme"],
      "web/sites/all/libraries/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-library"],
      "web/sites/all/drush/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-drush"],
      "web/profiles/{$name}/": ["type:drupal-profile"]
},
"preserve-paths": [
      "web/sites/all/modules/contrib",
      "web/sites/all/modules/custom",
      "web/sites/all/themes/contrib",
      "web/sites/all/themes/custom",
      "web/sites/all/libraries",
      "web/sites/all/drush",
      "web/sites/default/settings.php",
      "web/sites/default/files"
]

[dsdeiz]

I guess this approach would be a little bit difficult to manage i.e. you need to provide a composer.json file for your custom modules and you'll need to explicitly list each one of them inside the installer-paths block.

[greg-1-anderson]

Answered accurately; closing.

[hawkeyetwolf]

To make it a little easier, you can put all your custom modules in one repo, same for themes. That way you don't need to have separate repo's and composer.json entries for each individual custom theme/module.