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Now you can install most Varbase components with any Drupal 8 site. Even if installed with the Minimal or Standard profile.
However, using them with Varbase distro and Vartheme theme gives you way much more cool stuff!
For an example of how to require them in Drupal 8 site you can have a look at Varbase Media, Varbase Editor, ...
Issue #3017555: Changed [Varbase 8.6.x] Components dependencies on install: enable or dependencies: enable of modules in the .info.yml and composer.json to have tilde Version Range (~)
Issue #3020808: Updated scripts settings for [Create new vartheme subtheme] generator command to use Bootstrap library 3.4.0
[varbase-project] template: Added Varbase Updater for Managing Varbase updates #43#45
[varbase-project] template: Added composer-patches to repositories type vcs for vardot/composer-patches repository#44
NOTICE: We're now using composer patches from Vardot repository to suggest
several fixes and better handling of patches in your Drupal project.
You'll notice that we have included (https://github.com/vardot/composer-patches)
in the this composer.json repositories. This will replace the original
library (cweagans/composer-patches) with our own from (vardot/composer-patches).
See https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/pull/243 and more details
on our changes on the composer-patches package. Once our changes get merged,
we will revert to using (cweagans/composer-patches) without this override.