Awesome PHP Composer – Massive Collection of Resources

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

Composer

• Official Website
• Github
• Issues
• Source
• Documentation
• Getting Started Guide and Installation Instructions
• 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.
• Composer-Versions-Check – Shows outdated packages from last major versions after using the update command (showing “Latest is vX.Y.Z”).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-Bin-Plugin – Adds support for managing dependencies for multiple packages in a single repository or isolate bin dependencies.
• Composer-Inheritance-Plugin – Opinionated version of Wikimedia composer-merge-plugin to work in pair with Bamarni composer-bin-plugin.
• Composer-MonoRepo-Plugin – The plugin helps to manage dependencies for multiple packages in a single repository.
• 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-Patches – The plugin applies a patch from a local or remote file to any required package.
• Composer-Patches – Applies a patch from a local or remote file to any package that is part of a given composer project.
• Composer-Patchset – Automatically fetch, update and apply patches to any composer package with a twist – store the patchset as a composer package itself.
• Composer-Plugin-QA – Comprehensive Plugin for composer to execute PHP Quality assurance Tools.
• 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-Ignore-Plugin – 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-Vendor-Cleaner – Plugin removes unnecessary development files and directories from vendor directory by glob pattern syntax.
• Drupal Vendor Hardening Composer Plugin – Removes extraneous directories from the project’s vendor directory & adds .htaccess and web.config files to the root of the project’s vendor directory.
• Composer-Shared-Package-Plugin – Allows you to share selected packages between your projects by creating symlinks.
• Composer-Symlinker – Enables you to load packages from different directories (instead of loading them from /vendor).
• Prestissimo – A parallel downloader using phpext_curl.
• 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 (vendor folder).
• Composer-Dependency-Analyzer – Allows you to build a dependency graph for an installed composer project.
• Graph-Composer – Provides a graph visualization for your project’s composer.json and its dependencies.
• 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.
• PackageInfo – Enables you to retrieve all package informations (like version, tag, release date, description).
• Composer-Git-Hooks – A library for easily managing git hooks in your composer config.
• Symfony-Flex – Provides recipe-based installation and configuration management for Symfony packages.
• Narrowspark-Automatic – Automates the most common tasks of applications, boost package downloads, adds a composer security audit and more.
• PHPCodeSniffer-Composer-Installer – The plugin enables you to install PHP_CodeSniffer coding standards (rulesets).
• Composer-Warmup – The plugin adds the command warmup-opcode to Composer, which triggers the compilation of all PHP files discovered in your project into the Opcache.
• Foxy – Composer plugin that executes npm/yarn packages installation operations, when composer package is installed or updated.
• NodeJS-Installer – Installer for NodeJS and npm.
• Node-Composer – Installer for NodeJS, npm and yarn.
• Imposter-Plugin – Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.
• Composer Preload – The plugin generates a vendor/preload.php file to warm up the Opcache.
• PHP Inc – Automatically includes files for autoload and autoload-dev to facilitate using functions and grouped definitions within composer loaded applications.
• Composer Registry Manager – Enables you to switch between different composer repositories.
• Production-Dependencies-Guard – Prevents development packages from being added into require and getting into production environment.
• Composer Exclusive Install – Prevents more than one install or update operation at a time.
• Composer-Downloads-Plugin – Lightweight mechanism to download external resources (ZIP/TAR files) with only a url and path.
• Private-Composer-Installer – Install helper outsourcing sensitive keys from the package URL into environment variables.
• CycloneDX-PHP-Composer – 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.
• Composer-Compile-Plugin – Allow PHP libraries to define simple, freeform compilation tasks. Support post-install hooks in any package.

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.
• OctoLinker Browser Extension – Enables you to navigate Composer/NPM dependencies on Github.
• ComposerRequireChecker – A CLI tool to analyze dependencies and verify that no unknown imported symbols are used in the sources of a package.
• Composer-Unused – A CLI tool, which scans your code and shows unused Composer dependencies.
• Composer-Normalize – The plugin helps to keep your composer.json file(s) consistent by restructuring and sorting entries (normalizing).
• Composer-Service – Enables you to run Composer as a service on a remote server.
• Composer PreferLowest Checker – Strictly compare the specified minimum versions of your composer.json with the ones actually used by the prefer-lowest composer update command option.
• Bramus/Composer-Autocomplete – A Bash/Shell autocompletion script for Composer.
• Composer/Xdebug-Handler – Helps you to restart a CLI process without loading the xdebug extension.

Scripts

• ParameterHandler – Allows you to manage your ignored parameters when running a composer install or update.
• Tooly – 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 – One-file composer scripts.
• Composer-Travis-Lint – Allows you to lint the Travis CI configuration file (.travis.yml).
• Composer-Multitest – Enables you to run a Composer script against multiple, locally installed PHP versions, which are managed by PHPBrew or phpenv.
• ScriptsDev – Enables you to use a scripts-dev section, which triggers scripts only in dev mode.
• PhantomJS-Installer – A Composer Package which installs the PhantomJS binary (Linux, Windows, Mac) into /bin of your project.
• Composer-Vendor-Cleanup – A script which removes whitelisted unnecessary files (like tests/docs etc.) from the vendor directory.
• Composer Substitution Plugin – A Composer plugin replacing placeholders in the scripts section by dynamic values.

Services

• 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.

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
• 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 2018 – Nils Adermann @ phpday 2018
• Managing dependencies is more than running “composer update” – Nils Adermann @ phpsrb17
• 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

Slides

• 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
• 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

Packagist

Packagist is the PHP Package Repository.

Setup a Packagist Mirror

• Packagist Mirror – This script helps to setup a packagist mirror. It is the maintained and stable version of Packagist Crawler.
• Docker Image – This Docker image helps to create a customized packagist mirror.
• Packagist Mirror from Indonesia – Another implementation for creating a packagist mirror.

Packagist Mirrors

About metadata mirrors: https://packagist.org/mirrors

• North America
  • Canada – packagist.org Main mirror
• South America
  • Brazil – packagist.com.br
• Africa
  • South Africa – packagist.co.za
• Asia
  • China – php.cnpkg.org, https://pkg.phpcomposer.com/, https://mirrors.aliyun.com/composer/
  • India – https://packagist.in/
  • Indonesia – packagist.phpindonesia.id
  • Japan – packagist.jp

Composer Repositories

Private repositories

• fxpio/tug – Enables you to host a private Composer registry on AWS Serverless serving your private PHP packages, which are hosted on Github or Gitlab services.

Private Packagist

• 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 – A PHP client for the Private Packagist API. The client handles authentication, signature generation and access to all endpoints.

Repman

• repman.io & repman-io/repman – A Private PHP Package Repository Manager & Packagist Proxy.
• repman-io/composer-plugin – This plugin enables downloading via Repman by adding a distribution mirror URL for all your dependencies (without need to update the composer.lock file).

Packagist-compatible repositories

• 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.
• Firegento – A Composer Repository providing Magento Modules.
• Drupal Packagist – Composer repositories for Drupal 7 and 8 core, modules, and themes.
• Satis Server – 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.
• Cloudsmith – A fully managed package management SaaS with PHP/Composer support (and many others).
• Release Belt – Self–hosted Composer repository implementation to quickly integrate ZIP files of third party non–Composer releases.
• Packeton – Private self-hosted Composer repository for vendors. Fork of packagist with adding support for authorization, customer users, groups, webhooks.

Satis

• Gitlab-Composer – This is a branch/tag indexer for Gitlab repositories.
• Satisfy – Satis composer repository manager with a Web UI.
• Satis Control Panel – A simple web UI for managing your Satis Repository with optional CI integration.
• Satis Go – A web server for managing Satis configuration and hosting the generated Composer repository.

Toran Proxy

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

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