Initialize Varbase Development Base Recipe

Problem/Motivation

A dedicated base recipe is needed to clearly define which modules and configurations are intended for development environments only, making them easy to enable locally and easy to exclude from production builds.

Proposed resolution

Introduce a new Varbase Development Base recipe that groups all default development modules and configurations in a single, well-defined recipe. This recipe is explicitly intended for non-production environments and can be enabled during local development or CI workflows.

Included Development Modules

• dblog – Database logging for debugging and error inspection
• views_ui – User interface for managing Views
• config_update_ui – UI for reviewing and applying configuration updates
• devel – General development and debugging utilities
• sdc_devel – Development tools for Single Directory Components
• reroute_email – Email rerouting to prevent accidental email delivery

Intended Usage

• Enable this recipe in local, development, and CI environments
• Ensure it is not enabled in production environments
• Use it as a clear boundary between production-safe recipes and development-only tooling

Remaining tasks

• ✅ File an issue about this project
• ✅ Addition/Change/Update/Fix to this project
• ✅ Testing to ensure no regression
• ✅ Automated unit/functional testing coverage
• ✅ Developer Documentation support on feature change/addition
  
  Varbase Development Base
• ➖ User Guide Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ UX/UI designer responsibilities
• ➖ Accessibility and Readability
• ✅ Code review from 1 Varbase core team member
• ✅ Full testing and approval
• ✅ Credit contributors
• ✅ Review with the product owner
• ✅ Update Release Notes
• ❌ Release varbase-11.0.0-alpha1, varbase_starter-1.0.0-alpha1, varbase_dev_base-1.0.0-alpha1

User interface changes

• N/A

API changes

• N/A

Data model changes

• N/A

Release notes snippet

• feat: #3566507 Initialize Varbase Development Base Recipe