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First of all, to install Drupal Commerce, you’ll need Composer:

https://getcomposer.org/download/

Composer is a package manager for PHP. It allows you to download and include PHP libraries in your project’s autoloader — in this case, for your Drupal 8 site. Drupal 8 already includes many third-party libraries, especially from the Symfony framework.

Video from Drupal Training Day – December 1, 2018 – Drupal Commerce

10:00 – 10:45
Introduction.
Commerce Kickstart or build the site from scratch?
Environment check: Installing Drupal and Drupal Commerce.

10:45 – 11:00
Tea/coffee break, discussion.

Back in Drupal 6, there weren’t many options for e-commerce — Ubercart was the most successful solution, with a huge ecosystem of modules. But for Drupal 7, a new module emerged: Commerce.

http://drupal.org/project/ubercart

http://drupal.org/project/commerce

Both platforms have ready-made distributions: UberDrupal and Commerce Kickstart, which you can download and explore:

Downloads:

You may have encountered an issue with an outdated PHP version for Drupal and seen the following error:

Your PHP installation is too old. Drupal requires at least PHP 5.4.5. See the system requirements page for more information.

Now that we’ve finished installing Drupal and all the required modules, it’s time to install Ubercart. Go to http://www.ubercart.org/downloads and download the latest Ubercart 2.x for Drupal 6. It comes as a compressed tar.gz file, which you can extract just like you did with Drupal.

Don’t have Adminer yet? Download it now — it’s like phpMyAdmin, but in a single file only 300 KB in size! (Go to site)

I use a simple yet convenient and extremely fast text editor — Notepad++. It can instantly open large files (even a 200 MB database dump) and supports syntax highlighting for nearly all text formats. For Drupal development, HTML,_

Website development is often a collaborative effort involving multiple people — clients, project managers, designers, or several developers. It's important to consider input from all sides. One of the fastest and most efficient ways to log and comment on website changes is by using Trello.com. Trello is free to use, allowing you to create as many boards with to-do lists as needed:

To manage files — such as storing layouts, images, and text content for the website — we use Dropbox. Dropbox synchronizes the contents of a shared folder across all users, so any changes made in the folder by one user are automatically reflected for everyone else who has access.

To add someone to your shared Dropbox folder, click on "Share this folder" and then enter the email address of the person you want to invite:

Very often I’m asked to create a simple website using Drupal. These types of sites can indeed be built quickly and easily, and they tend to be quite similar. So I thought it would be better to create a ready-made base — my own Drupal distribution.