Command to install Drupal 9 with Composer

Question

The latest version of Drupal 8 can be installed via Composer with the following command:

composer create-project drupal/recommended-project mynewproject

What is the equivalent command to install the latest version of Drupal 9 (beta1)?

Answer 1

create-project can take a version number, and recommended-project has some tags in for 9.x, so for example:

composer create-project drupal/recommended-project mynewproject "9.0-beta1"

Or if you just want the bleeding edge to play with:

composer create-project drupal/recommended-project mynewproject "^9.0" --stability=dev --prefer-dist

Answer 2

If you use composer create-project drupal/recommended-project it will now install D9