A starter Boilerplate for Magento 2
In the root Magento folder, run this command, (*1)
composer require mrluisamador/m2-composer-boilerplate dev-master
You will be asked to authenticate yourself to connect to Magento:, (*2)
Get your authentication keys, (*3)
Once that is done the base theme will be installed and located in the vendor folder at:, (*4)
vendor/your_package/m2-composer-boilerplate
Although the Magento documentation will display examples in the app/design/frontend/
folder, this all proves to work the same
with the base theme being in the vendor directory because of the registration.php., (*5)
Follow the same direction as the Magento documentation. The only difference is the location of the theme., (*6)
Base theme instructions, (*7)