Drupal 8.x

I've been trying to install Drupal 8 via composer, using drupal-composer/drupal-project.  After entering 

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev some-dir --stability dev --no-interaction

which seems to be the common instruction for installing Drupal 8 via composer, I find that the installed version  is Drupal 8.5.0-alpha1.  Seems odd, given that 8.5.0 has been released.  I've tried changing the version from '8.x-dev' to '8.5.0', or '8.5.0-dev', and I get told that it can't be found.

I'm trying to figure out if there's a non-programmatic way to solve this issue. I have users that log in with their full name ("John Smith") and I'd like to show a directory of names, but sorted by their last name. Is there a way to just change the field that is displayed to "Smith, John" in Views or somehow just sort on the secondary name?

Thanks!

I am trying to create a view in Drupal 8 that displays nodes based on a filter and includes the user who last edited the node. Any suggestions?

Hi,

I am relatively new to Drupal (8.4.4.) and to working with twig templates.

I want to compare a value of a variable with the current node-id of the page.

But I cannot find a variable in with the node-id is stored, so I can read it out in the content area of the template.

can you give me a hint?

Hey,

I've created a custom form with phpMyAdmin as a database.

The fields i am having are name, age, email, task and deadline. The question is if the deadline reaches less than two days i want to send an email to the person whose deadline is reached. How can i do this ? Can anyone help me out ?

Thanks.

I am expecting an example. Documentation is quite complex for me to understand.

Hello All,

I am following composer based workflow for Drupal 8, in which I commit only custom code and use composer install to install it on another environment.

However, on new workflow, the dev, test, staging instances are on Internal network, with no access to Internet (due to security reasons).

Can you suggest a deployment strategy to use in this scenario, so that I don't have to commit the whole files in git repository, as is.