Support / IRC

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

Services / IRC

• Dependabot - Dependabot is a dependency update service. It monitors and updates your dependencies by sending a pull-request. The service is free for public repos and personal account repos.

Packagist Mirrors / IRC

• Global, CloudFlare - packagist.pages.dev

Packagist-compatible repositories / IRC

• RepoFlow - Simple and fast platform for hosting private Composer registries. Also supports Docker, npm, PyPI, Maven, and RubyGems. Offers free options for both cloud and self-hosted setups.

Tutorials / IRC

• Creating and Using Composer Packages

Composer

• GitHub (⭐29k)

Support / Stack Overflow

• Ask a new question

• Find questions tagged composer-php

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Dependency-Analyzer (⭐541) - The plugin helps to find dependency issues, including dead, unused, shadow and misplaced dependencies.

• PHPCodeSniffer-Composer-Installer (⭐582) - The plugin enables you to install PHP_CodeSniffer (⭐11k) coding standards (rulesets).

Tools / IRC

• Composer SemVer Checker - Enables you identify constraint to version resolution issues, by doing a semantic version check for Packagist hosted packages.

Tutorials / IRC

• A beginners guide to Composer

• Easy package management with Composer

• PHP Composer Magento Tutorial by Alan Storm

Blogs / IRC

• The long journey of making PHPs Composer memory-efficient and fast (toflar)

Videos / IRC

• Composer Best Practices — Jordi Boggiano @ phptek 2015

Packagist Mirrors / IRC

• Africa
  • South Africa - packagist.co.za

• Asia
  • China - https://pkg.xyz/, https://developer.aliyun.com/composer
  • India - https://packagist.in/
  • Japan - packagist.jp
  • Korea - https://packagist.kr/

Satis / IRC

• GitLab-Composer (⭐163) - This is a branch/tag indexer for GitLab repositories.

• Satisfy (⭐533) - Satis composer repository manager with a Web UI.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Velocita (⭐27) - Fast and reliable Composer package downloads using Velocita (⭐60): a caching reverse proxy that does not require you to modify your projects.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Skrub (⭐86) - The plugin helps to remove junk from Composer installations and trim build sizes.

• Composer-Curl-Plugin (⭐5) - The plugin uses phpext_curl for downloading packages.

• Composer-Locator (⭐58) - Provides a means of locating the installation path for a given Composer package name.

• Composer-Plugin-Exclude-Files (⭐40) - A plugin for excluding files required by packages using the 'files' autoloading mechanism.

• Composer-Link (⭐79) - Adds the ability to link local packages for development.

• Composer-REPL (⭐106) - The plugin provides the composer repl command, which gives you a PHP language shell (read-eval-print loop).

• Composer-Diff (⭐180) - Compares composer.lock changes and generates a Markdown report for usage in a pull request description.

Scripts / IRC

• Composer-Substitution-Plugin (⭐51) - A Composer plugin replacing placeholders in the scripts section by dynamic values.

Registry Manager / IRC

• https://github.com/slince/composer-registry-manager (⭐563) - The plugin helps you to switch between different composer repositories.

Videos / IRC

• Composer Best Practices 2018 - Nils Adermann @ scotphp18

• Composer 2 - Jordi Boggiano @ Symfony UK usergroup 2020

• Lessons learned building the Composer internals - Jordi Boggiano @ CODEiD Odessa PHP Conference 2017

Slides / IRC

• Slides by Jordi Boggiano
  • Source: http://slides.seld.be/
  • Dependency Management with Composer (2013)
  • In Depth with Composer (2013)
  • Composer Best Practices (2015)
  • Introduction to Composer (2015)
  • Composer in 2016
  • Lessons Learned Building the Composer Internals (2018)

Plugins / IRC

• PackageVersions Deprecated (⭐1.5k) - Is a fork of Ocramius/PackageVersions providing compatibility with Composer 1 and 2 on PHP 7+.

Tools / IRC

• Composer Semver Range Checker - A tool to help check the satisfiable ranges of a composer constraint.

Repman / IRC

• repman-io/composer-plugin (⭐11) - This plugin enables downloading via Repman by adding a distribution mirror URL for all your dependencies (without need to update the composer.lock file).

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Symlinker (⭐18) - Enables you to load packages from different directories (instead of loading them from /vendor).

• Composer-Compile-Plugin (⭐12) - Allow PHP libraries to define simple, freeform compilation tasks. Support post-install hooks in any package.

Composer

• Issues (⭐29k)

• Source (⭐29k)

• Getting Started Guide and Installation Instructions

Plugins / IRC

• NodeJS-Installer (⭐107) - Installer for Node.js and npm.

• Node-Composer (⭐6) - Installer for Node.js, npm and yarn.

Plugins / IRC

• CycloneDX-PHP-Composer (⭐67) - Creates a CycloneDX "Software Bill-of-Materials" (SBOM) for the dependencies of a project. The SBOM enables dependency monitoring and risk analysis by OWASP DependencyTrack.

Private repositories / IRC

• fxpio/tug (⭐41) - Enables you to host a private Composer registry on AWS Serverless serving your private PHP packages, which are hosted on GitHub or GitLab services.

Packagist-compatible repositories / IRC

• Cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS with PHP/Composer support (and many others).

Tools / IRC

• Composer-Unused (⭐1.6k) - A CLI tool, which scans your code and shows unused Composer dependencies.

Repman / IRC

• repman.io & repman-io/repman (⭐550) - A Private PHP Package Repository Manager & Packagist Proxy.

Scripts / IRC

• PhantomJS-Installer (⭐152) - A Composer Package which installs the PhantomJS binary (Linux, Windows, Mac) into /bin of your project.

• Composer-Vendor-Cleanup (⭐3) - A script which removes whitelisted unnecessary files (like tests/docs etc.) from the vendor directory.

Composer

• CheatSheet - Overview of CLI commands and composer.json schema.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Patchset (⭐8) - Automatically fetch, update and apply patches to any composer package with a twist - store the patchset as a composer package itself.

Tools / IRC

• Composer-Normalize (⭐1.1k) - The plugin helps to keep your composer.json file(s) consistent by restructuring and sorting entries (normalizing).

Packagist-compatible repositories / IRC

• Packeton (⭐467) - Private self-hosted Composer repository for vendors. Fork of packagist with adding support for authorization, customer users, groups, webhooks.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Vendor-Cleaner (⭐31) - Plugin removes unnecessary development files and directories from vendor directory by glob pattern syntax.

Blogs / IRC

• Nils Adermann (naderman)

Slides / IRC

• Slides by Nils Adermann
  • Source: https://naderman.de/slippy/src/
  • PHP Reinvented - How Composer helped shape the new way of writing PHP
  • Composer Update
  • Dependency Management with Composer PHP Reinvented
  • Managing dependencies is more than running "composer update"
  • Composer Best Practices @ T3DD17
  • Gain Control over your Dependencies with Private Packagist
  • Composer.lock demystified
  • Compoer In-Depth @ Contao Konferenz 2018
  • Composer Best Practices 2018
  • Developing and Deploying Magento with Composer Best Practices
  • Composer Platform Config (check-platform-reqs) @ SymfonCon 2018

Plugins / IRC

• Private-Composer-Installer (⭐230) - Install helper outsourcing sensitive keys from the package URL into environment variables.

Plugins / IRC

• Drupal Vendor Hardening Composer Plugin (⭐16) - Removes extraneous directories from the project's vendor directory & adds .htaccess and web.config files to the root of the project's vendor directory.

Setup a Packagist Mirror / IRC

• Packagist Mirror (⭐199) - This script helps to setup a packagist mirror. It is the maintained and stable version of Packagist Crawler (⭐57).

Packagist-compatible repositories / IRC

• Firegento - A Composer Repository providing Magento Modules.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Downloads-Plugin (⭐7) - Lightweight mechanism to download external resources (ZIP/TAR files) with only a url and path.

Tools / IRC

• Bramus/Composer-Autocomplete (⭐98) - A Bash/Shell autocompletion script for Composer.

• Composer/Xdebug-Handler (⭐2.5k) - Helps you to restart a CLI process without loading the xdebug extension.

Plugins / IRC

• Production-Dependencies-Guard (⭐87) - Prevents development packages from being added into require and getting into production environment.

Tools / IRC

• Composer PreferLowest Checker (⭐22) - Strictly compare the specified minimum versions of your composer.json with the ones actually used by the prefer-lowest composer update command option.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-MonoRepo-Plugin (⭐309) - The plugin helps to manage dependencies for multiple packages in a single repository.

• Composer-Patches (⭐294) - Applies a patch from a local or remote file to any package that is part of a given composer project.

• Composer-Ignore-Plugin (⭐21) - Enables you to remove files and folders from the vendor folder (to make a cleaner and smaller deployment to production). It's an alternative to .gitattributes.

• Composer-Shared-Package-Plugin (⭐164) - Allows you to share selected packages between your projects by creating symlinks.

• Composer-Custom-Directory-Installer (⭐138) - A composer plugin, to install different types of composer packages in custom directories outside the default composer installation path (vendor folder).

• Graph-Composer (⭐943) - Provides a graph visualization for your project's composer.json and its dependencies.

• PackageInfo (⭐7) - Enables you to retrieve all package informations (like version, tag, release date, description).

• Foxy (⭐176) - Composer plugin that executes npm/yarn packages installation operations, when composer package is installed or updated.

• Composer Registry Manager (⭐563) - Enables you to switch between different composer repositories.

Tools / IRC

• Composer-Yaml (⭐55) - This tool converts composer.yml to composer.json.

• Composer-Service (⭐173) - Enables you to run Composer as a service on a remote server.

Scripts / IRC

• ParameterHandler (⭐929) - Allows you to manage your ignored parameters when running a composer install or update.

• Tooly (⭐103) - Manage needed PHAR files in your project composer.json. Every PHAR file will be saved in the composer binary directory. Optional with GPG verification for every PHAR.

• Melody (⭐395) - One-file composer scripts.

Videos / IRC

• Composer Best Practices 2018 - Nils Adermann @ phpday 2018

Packagist-compatible repositories / IRC

• WordPress Packagist - Mirrors the WordPress plugin and theme directories as a Composer repository.

• Asset Packagist - Enables installation of Bower and NPM packages as native Composer packages.

• Drupal Packagist - Composer repositories for Drupal 7 and 8 core, modules, and themes.

• Satis Server (⭐114) - This docker container provides a Satis Server and enables you to run a private, self-hosted Composer repository with support for Git, Mercurial, and Subversion, HTTP API, HTTPs support, webhook handler and scheduled builds.

• Release Belt (⭐175) - Self–hosted Composer repository implementation to quickly integrate ZIP files of third party non–Composer releases.

Private Packagist / IRC

• Private Packagist Cloud - A Composer Repository as a Service for private packages and to mirror packages from other repositories.

• Private Packagist Enterprise - On-premise self-hosted version of Private Packagist.

• Private Packagist API Client (⭐34) - A PHP client for the Private Packagist API. The client handles authentication, signature generation and access to all endpoints.

Plugins / IRC

• PHP Inc (⭐5) - Automatically includes files for autoload and autoload-dev to facilitate using functions and grouped definitions within composer loaded applications.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer Preload (⭐207) - The plugin generates a vendor/preload.php file to warm up the Opcache.

Videos / IRC

• Wonderful World of Composer

Plugins / IRC

• Narrowspark-Automatic (⭐14) - Automates the most common tasks of applications, boost package downloads, adds a composer security audit and more.

Plugins / IRC

• Imposter-Plugin (⭐153) - Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Git-Hooks (⭐1.1k) - A library for easily managing git hooks in your composer config.

Scripts / IRC

• Composer-Travis-Lint (⭐6) - Allows you to lint the Travis CI configuration file (.travis.yml).

• Composer-Multitest (⭐5) - Enables you to run a Composer script against multiple, locally installed PHP versions, which are managed by PHPBrew or phpenv.

Setup a Packagist Mirror / IRC

• Docker Image (⭐27) - This Docker image helps to create a customized packagist mirror.

• Packagist Mirror from Indonesia (⭐31) - Another implementation for creating a packagist mirror.

Packagist Mirrors / IRC

• North America
  • Canada - packagist.org Main mirror

Tools / IRC

• OctoLinker Browser Extension (⭐5.3k) - Enables you to navigate Composer/NPM dependencies on GitHub.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Plugin-QA (⭐25) - Comprehensive Plugin for composer to execute PHP Quality assurance Tools.

Videos / IRC

• Managing dependencies is more than running "composer update" - Nils Adermann @ phpsrb17

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Warmup (⭐180) - The plugin adds the command warmup-opcode to Composer, which triggers the compilation of all PHP files discovered in your project into the Opcache.

Tutorials / IRC

• PHP Dependency Management with Composer

Plugins / IRC

• Symfony-Flex (⭐4.2k) - Provides recipe-based (⭐1k) installation and configuration management for Symfony packages.

Toran Proxy / IRC

• ToranProxy (deprecated) - In addition to providing a composer repository ToranProxy acts as a proxy server for Packagist and GitHub.

Tools / IRC

• ComposerRequireChecker (⭐960) - A CLI tool to analyze dependencies and verify that no unknown imported symbols are used in the sources of a package.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Patches (⭐1.6k) - The plugin applies a patch from a local or remote file to any required package.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Bin-Plugin (⭐505) - Adds support for managing dependencies for multiple packages in a single repository or isolate bin dependencies.

• Composer-Inheritance-Plugin (⭐28) - Opinionated version of Wikimedia composer-merge-plugin to work in pair with Bamarni composer-bin-plugin.

Plugins / IRC

• Composer-Asset-Plugin (⭐891) - A npm/Bower Dependencies Manager for Composer.

Satis / IRC

• Satis Control Panel (⭐151) - A simple web UI for managing your Satis Repository with optional CI integration.

• Satis Go (⭐96) - A web server for managing Satis configuration and hosting the generated Composer repository.

Tutorials / IRC

• Composer Primer

Scripts / IRC

• ScriptsDev (⭐69) - Enables you to use a scripts-dev section, which triggers scripts only in dev mode.

Plugins / IRC

• Documentation for Plugins - This offical documentation is good starting point, when writing a Composer plugin.

• Composer-AWS (⭐77) - The plugin loads repository data and downloads packages from Amazon S3 (with authentication support for private repositories).

• Composer-Composition (⭐105) - Provides an API, for checking your environment at runtime.

• Composer-Suggest (⭐4) - Enables you to install a custom group of suggested packages, based on keyword patterns.

• Composer-Versions-Check (⭐234) - Shows outdated packages from last major versions after using the update command (showing "Latest is vX.Y.Z").

• Composer-Changelogs (⭐590) - 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 (⭐962) - Merges multiple composer.json files at Composer runtime.

• Composer-Patches-Plugin (⭐79) - 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 (⭐147) - Removes tests & documentation folders from the vendor dir.

• Composer-Cleaner (⭐137) - The tool removes unnecessary files and directories from the vendor directory.

• Prestissimo (⭐6.2k) - A parallel downloader using phpext_curl.

• Composer-Dependency-Analyzer - Allows you to build a dependency graph for an installed composer project.

• PackageVersions (⭐3.2k) - Provides a very quick and easy access to installed composer dependency versions.

Tools / IRC

• Studio (⭐1.1k) - 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.

Tutorials / IRC

• A short & simple Composer tutorial

Blogs / IRC

• Jordi Boggiano (seldaek)

• Composer Stability Flags

• Composer Versioning

Videos / IRC

• PHP Composer Quickstart

• How Composer helped shape the new way of writing PHP - Nils Adermann @ Drupal Camp Frankfurt

• Composer Package Management - Nils Adermann @ T3CON12DE

Composer

• Official Website

• Documentation

• Find Packages on Packagist

• Composer Installers (⭐1.4k) - Composer installers for multiple frameworks.

Support / Stack Overflow

• You might use the following tags: composer-php, packagist, satis + php.