Activate modules with the CLI in Magento

Magento tracks which modules are active in the app/etc/config.php file. This file contains a big PHP array that maps the module names to their status:

return [
    'modules' => [
        'SomeVendor_SomeModule' => 0, // Disabled module
        'AnotherVendor_Module' => 1,  // Enabled module
    ]
];

While you could edit this file directly, this isn’t a good idea. This is because the order in which modules are added to this file is important.

It's much safer to use the CLI commands instead:

bin/magento module:enable AnotherVendor_Modu...