No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when robots.txt, .htaccess or settings.php have changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.
Thank you, Martin and Olaf! I had a feeling that there might be something out there already :)
I will check all three options (I will look at porting modules) and report back which one...
The Views Watchdog module for Backdrop "extends the Views module and allows to create custom lists of log entries". On Github, there is also a Wiki page with information about available fields,...
Posted3 days 4 hours ago by Olaf Grabienski (Olafski) on:
Hi Irina
I have often wondered this. I have had Log Filter on my list of possible migrations for a while; this uses a JS library to do the filtering. I notice on the project page of this...
Posted3 days 4 hours ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) on:
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No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when
robots.txt,.htaccessorsettings.phphave changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.