---
title: Drupal Recipe Unpacking
date: 2025-07-12 22:57:36
tags:
  - drupal
links:
  - text: New Recipe Unpack composer plugin
    url: https://www.drupal.org/node/3522189
  - text: This Blog Is No Longer on Drupal CMS, and That's a Good Thing
    url: https://joshuami.com/blog/2025/recipe-unpack-blog-no-longer-drupal-cms-and-thats-good-thing
---

Drupal now supports recipe unpacking.

> The Recipe Unpacking system is a Composer plugin that manages "drupal-recipe" packages. Recipes are special Composer packages designed to bootstrap Drupal projects with necessary dependencies. When a recipe is required, this plugin "unpacks" it by moving the recipe's dependencies directly into your project's root composer.json, and removes the recipe as a project dependency.

This is added automatically for new projects, but can also be added to existing projects using `composer require drupal/core-recipe-unpack` and the `drupal:recipe-unpack` command.