Using bee with DDEV

DDEV is a docker-based local development tool with excellent support for Backdrop CMS. Bee can be used in combination with DDEV by setting up a custom DDEV command.

1. Install bee within your web-build container by opening .ddev/web-build/Dockerfile. If this file does not exist yet, create it. Add the following contents:

ARG BASE_IMAGE
FROM $BASE_IMAGE

# Install Backdrop CLI tool bee:
RUN wget -qO bee.zip https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/bee/archive/1.x-1.x.zip
RUN unzip -q bee.zip && rm bee.zip
RUN mv bee-1.x-1.x /usr/local/bin/bee

2. Create a bee command by creating a new text file at .ddev/commands/web/bee. Put in the following contents:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

/usr/local/bin/bee/bee.php --root=/var/www/html/$DDEV_DOCROOT --uri=$DDEV_PRIMARY_URL $@

3. In order for some commands to work, you should set a $base_url within your settings.ddev.php file:

$base_url = getenv('DDEV_PRIMARY_URL');

4. Restart the DDEV container:

ddev restart

5. Now you can use bee within the ddev web container:

ddev bee status