This project extends the drupal-composer/drupal-project by adding modules from the popular "Top modules" blog series on Mediacurrent.com. Most of the instructions from that project readme apply here as well.
This project is meant as an educational tool that will save you time getting setup.
The easiest way to get started is to clone this repo and run composer install. This will download Drupal core, recommended "Top modules" and their dependencies. Once that is done you can install Drupal as normal but now you will have additional contributed modules you can install.