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.
It is a good point @izmeez and when I was researching repo discoverability I found that GitHub search does prioritise matches with more stars.
This is what I was researching for:...
Posted9 hours 54 min ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) on:
This link should work if the VIEW contains a Block and a Page - the link from the block will be directed to this page. I've never used it, so I might be wrong. But what can be done easier is to...
Thank you very much for your reply!
I understood that I first need to create a VIEW. I had assumed that the settings were configured via the block because it’s already included in Backdrop...
Comments
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.