Joomla! Documentation™

This instructions are for Joomla! component development, for version 4 of Joomla!

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 with WSL support
• Install Docker Desktop on Windows
• Install Git for Windows

Procedure

In a Windows 10/11 Desktop with requirements installed, do:

• Open a git-bash terminal (you can use your personal editor choice with git support to do that too)
• create a local repo:

  local-repo $ git init

• create this directories inside this folder:

 $  mkdir -p src/admin
 $  mkdir -p src/site

• Copy from docker hub the stack.yml code and adapt the code including in the joomla: section a new directive:

   volumes:
     - './src/admin:/var/www/html/administrator/components/com_helloworld'
     - './src/site:/var/www/html/components/com_helloworld'

• Run the docker image with:

 $ docker compose -f stack.yml up -d

• Access the joomla in your browser using localhosta address and 8080 port (this port can be changed in the stack.yml file) and run de Joomla configuration
• Commit the initial code with:

 $ git add .
 $ git commit -am "Initial development environment"

• Edit your code on your editor, following the Developing a Basic Component instructions
• Stop the docker images with:

 $ docker compose -f stack.yml stop

• Remove the docker images with:

 $ docker compose -f stack.yml down

References

• The official Joomla! docker image is on Docker Hub