Steps to develop Apigee Developer Portal in offline mode

[madhans]

When a Drupal developer exports the DB and clones it to their local VM, what are the additional steps to be performed to continue with local development.

[anilsr · Accepted solution]

Great Question @Madhan Sadasivam ,

I always do development offline when it comes to Apigee Developer Portal. Simple reason, development will be faster. Please find steps i follow to do same.

• Clone codebase from pantheon into local machine. I don't use any VM. I have used MAMP to run developer portal locally.
• Download DB & files (sites/default/files) & create a database in local mysql & import downloaded db, updates sites/default/files folder in local system with downloaded one.
• Update settings.php to wire up codebase with database
• Create a local virtual host in local machine using apache settings so that you can access portal using domain name like "dev.mycustomer" in local machine instead of localip:port/mycustomer
• Update Apigee Edge Connection settings using drush commands
• Do the code changes & push to pantheon cloud

Only disadvantage that i see with local development is migrating configuration changes which will be stored in db & you can't move the db to cloud instance since both content & config stored in same database.

• Track the config changes
• Redo same in cloud instance / Use features modules if you have Drupal Expertise.

[madhans]

Does SmartDocs continue to work in offline dev mode as well.

[anilsr]

Yes, It works, Forgot one step, you need to update Apigee Edge Connection settings using drush commands.