Creating recipes for Drupal Gather

February 13th, 2026

These are the steps I took to create a new recipe for the Drupal Gather distribution.

All development work is being done in this monorepo, with the different components in their own directories.

Create the directory for the recipe:

mkdir -p recipes/gather_events

Create recipes/gather_events/composer.json:

{
    "name": "drupal/gather_events",
    "description": "Creates the event content type.",
    "type": "drupal-recipe",
    "license": ["GPL-2.0-or-later"]
}

Create recipes/gather_events/recipe.yml:

name: 'Gather: Events'
description: 'Configures the event content type'
type: 'Content Type'

install:
  - field
  - node

config:
  import:
    field: '*'
    node: '*'

Create recipes/gather_events/config/node.type.event.yml to store the configuration for the Event content type:

langcode: en
status: true
dependencies: {  }
third_party_settings: {  }
name: Event
type: event
description: null
help: null
new_revision: true
preview_mode: 1
display_submitted: false

Within the project directory, run composer require drupal/gather_events to require the recipe.

Add the new recipe name to the gather.info.yml file within the profile directory:

recipes:
  required:
    - drupal/gather_base
    - drupal/gather_events
    - drupal/gather_speakers
    - drupal/gather_sponsors

Finally, run drush recipe ../recipes/gather_events to apply the recipe.