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Informations about the package composer-link

composer-link

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Adds ability to link local packages in composer for development.

This plugin won't alter your composer.json or composer.lock file, while maintaining the composer abilities to manage/upgrade your packages.

Requirements

Installation

This plugin can be installed globally or per project

Globally

Per project:

Usage

The following three commands are made available by this plugin link, unlink and linked. When the plugin is installed globally you can prefix the commands with global as example composer global linked and install global packages.

To link a package you can use the link commands, you can also link a global package. When linked to a global package absolute paths are used, when using a relative path composer-link resolves it to the absolute path.

It's also possible to use a wildcard in your path, note that this will install all packages found in the directory ../packages If you don't want to link all the packages but only the ones originally installed you can pass the --only-installed flag.

Composer link will automatically install/update the required packages from the linked package, you can prevent this behavior by adding the --without-dependencies flag.

When the composer link or composer unlink are used all packages defined in require-dev of the root package are installed by default, this can be prevented by using the --no-dev flag

To unlink the package you can use the unlink command

You can also unlink all package with the following command

To see all linked packages in your project you can use the linked command

Development

The following tools are available for development. It's also possible to link this package to your global for testing changes.

All versions of composer-link with dependencies

PHP Build Version
Package Version
Requires php Version >=8.1
ext-json Version *
composer-plugin-api Version ^2.6
Composer command for our command line client (download client) This client runs in each environment. You don't need a specific PHP version etc. The first 20 API calls are free. Standard composer command

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