Awesome Composer

A curated list of resources for Composer, Packagist, Satis, Plugins, Scripts, Videos, Tutorials.

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Composer

• Official Website
• Issues
• Github
• Getting Started Guide and Installation Instructions
• Documentation
• API Documentation
• Find Packages on Packagist
• CheatSheet - Overview of CLI commands and composer.json schema.
• Composer Installers - Composer installers for multiple frameworks.

Support

Stack Overflow

• You might use the following tags: composer-php, packagist, satis + php.
• Ask a new question
• Find questions tagged composer-php

IRC

• IRC channels are on irc.freenode.org: #composer for users and #composer-dev for development.

Plugins

• Documentation for Plugins - This offical documentation is good starting point, when writing a Composer plugin.
• Composer-Asset-Plugin - A npm/Bower Dependencies Manager for Composer.
• Composer-AWS - The plugin loads repository data and downloads packages from Amazon S3 (with authentication support for private repositories).
• Composer-Composition - Provides an API, for checking your environment at runtime.
• Composer-Suggest - Enables you to install a custom group of suggested packages, based on keyword patterns.
• Climb - Climb is a "Composer version manager tool" inspired by npm-check-updates. It shows the outdates package version and indicates "upgrades" to latest versions.
• Composer-Versions-Check - Shows outdated packages from last major versions after using the update command (showing "Latest is vX.Y.Z").
• Composer-Changelogs - Provides a summary of the updates with links to changelog/releasenote/tag. The output is ready to be pasted into the commit message when updating the composer.lock file.
• Composer-Merge-Plugin - Merges multiple composer.json files at Composer runtime.
• Composer-Patches-Plugin - Enables you to provide patches for any package from any package. When the dependency is fetched, the patch is applied on top.
• Composer-Cleanup-Plugin - Removes tests & documentation folders from the vendor dir.
• Composer-Cleaner - The tool removes unnecessary files and directories from the vendor directory.
• Composer-Shared-Package-Plugin - Allows you to share your selected packages between your projects by creating symlinks.
• Composer-Symlinker - Enables you to load some packages from different directories (instead of loading them from /vendor).
• Prestissimo - A parallel downloader using phpext_curl.
• Composer-FastFetch - Parallel Downloader using external download tools: Aria2.
• Composer-Curl-Plugin - The plugin use phpext_curl for downloading packages.
• Composer-Custom-Directory-Installer - A composer plugin, to install different types of composer packages in custom directories outside the default composer installation path (which is in the vendor folder).
• Composer-Dependency-Analyzer - Allows you to build a dependency graph for an installed composer project.
• PackageVersions - Provides a very quick and easy access to installed composer dependency versions.
• Composer Locator - Provides a means of locating the installation path for a given Composer package name.

Tools

• Composer SemVer Checker- Enables you identify constraint to version resolution issues, by doing a semantic version check for Packagist hosted packages.
• Composer-Yaml - This tool converts composer.yml to composer.json.
• Studio - A workbench for developing Composer packages. Its an alternative to editing dependencies in the vendor folder or using PathRepositories to load a local clone of your dependency into your project.

Scripts

• ScriptsDev - Enables you to use a scripts-dev section, which triggers scripts only in dev mode.
• ParameterHandler - Allows you to manage your ignored parameters when running a composer install or update.
• PhantomJS-Installer- A Composer Package which installs the PhantomJS binary (Linux, Windows, Mac) into /bin of your project.

Tutorials

• A beginners guide to Composer
• A short & simple Composer tutorial
• Easy package management with Composer
• PHP Dependency Management with Composer
• Composer Primer
• PHP Composer Magento Tutorial by Alan Storm

Books

• Creating and Using Composer Packages

Blogs

• Jordi Boggiano (seldaek)
• Nils Adermann (naderman)
• Composer: Part 1 - What & Why
• Composer: Part 2 - Impact
• Composer Stability Flags
• Composer Versioning

Videos

• Composer Best Practices — Jordi Boggiano @ php[tek] 2015
• Wonderful World of Composer
• PHP Composer Quickstart
• How Composer helped shape the new way of writing PHP - Nils Adermann @ Drupal Camp Frankfurt
• Composer Package Management - Nils Adermann @ T3CON12DE

Packagist

• Packagist-Crawler - Script to mirror Packagist metadata.

Packagist Mirrors

• Europe
  • France https://packagist.org/ - 87.98.253.214 (ovh.net).
• Asia
  • Japan http://packagist.jp/ - 104.28.30.100 (CloudFlare, San Fransico, USA).
  • China http://packagist.cn/ - 123.56.107.40 (Aliyun Computing; Alibaba, Hangzhou, China).
• USA
  • Give http://packagist.jp/ a try.

Satis

• Gitlab-Composer - This is a branch/tag indexer for Gitlab repositories.
• Satisfy - Satis composer repository manager with a Web UI.
• Satis Control Panel - Is a simple web UI for managing your Satis Repository for Composer Packages.
• Satis Go - Satis-go is a web server for hosting and managing your Satis Repository for Composer Packages.

Proxies

• ToranProxy - ToranProxy acts as a proxy server for Packagist and GitHub.

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License

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