Our goal is to be a platform where competing vendors can work together on a unified launch experience. This aligns with the Starshot goal of bringing vendors together to build a common Drupal product for non-technical users. We are in talks with the Drupal Association to align our work with Drupal launch button in the Starshot wireframes.

Drupal contributors can use Drupal Forge to try Drupal, experiment with new modules, test bugs, try out bug fixes, and to contribute code back to the Drupal project. 

You can use it to teach Drupal development and VS Code to others.

You can collaborate with other developers from around the world - in real time.

Drupal Forge is mainly a tool for developers. 

If you're in the development business, then Drupal Forge will make you more productive, help you collaborate, and save costs.

You will be able to create and deploy better sites faster.

Drupal Forge is supported by various individuals and companies. 

If you would like to support Drupal Forge, then please contact us.

Please check out the videos on the how-to page. (Click here)

Yes. You can deploy your Dev sites to any production hosting provider of your choice. Check out the video(s) under the How-To section. (click here) Contact us if you need help.

To run a Drupal Forge (DF) site in your local dev environment, simply create a backup of your site in the DF dashboard and then download those files (code, database, and the static files) to your local machine. 

Use the downloaded files to spin up your site locally. 

Drupal Forge is built on DevPanel. 

However, Drupal Forge uses a very limited version of DevPanel with only its basic features.

You can check out DevPanel's website to learn more about it if you like.

You can't really compare Tugboat to Drupal Forge (DF). It's like comparing Apples to Oranges. 

SimplyTest.me is a service built on Tugboat. Drupal Forge is a service built on DevPanel.

If you want to compare Tugboat to something, you can compare it to DevPanel. 

The details of that comparison, however, are beyond the scope of this FAQ, so we'll just leave it at that.

GitPod is awesome. Drupal Forge (DF) is very similar to it in many ways. Here are the similarities and differences: