[FIXED] Composer ignore folders on package require

Issue

I want to use a package with composer require but I don't want it to load all the folders. I know that I should fork this package on github and make my changes, but I want to easily update the package when need, and copy/pasting folders isn't the best option.

So, I was thinking, is it possible to somehow on my forked repository on composer.json file, tell that I don't want to load Eloquent and Console folders from the illuminate/database package?

reference: https://github.com/illuminate/database

Solution

First of all there is no way to exclude these folders from Composer.

And I will never understand why some people are still hunting for the last 2 bytes of disk space. Disk space is really cheap nowadays. And for example you would never go and delete some single functions that you don't use from a package or do you?

In almost any package/framework I use, there are some things I don't use but it would never come into my mind to remove them unless I'm a NASA guy sending my code to Pluto or something.

My advice: Keep these files unless there is a really big need to have them removed.

If you need to remove them you could write a script and run it at a post-package-update event.

Here is how you define a script event in your composer.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "post-update-cmd": "MyVendor\\MyClass::postUpdate",
        "post-package-install": [
            "MyVendor\\MyClass::postPackageInstall"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "MyVendor\\MyClass::warmCache",
            "phpunit -c app/"
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd" : [
            "php -r \"copy('config/local-example.php', 'config/local.php');\""
        ]
    }
}

And an example for the MyVendor\MyClass class:

<?php

namespace MyVendor;

use Composer\Script\Event;
use Composer\Installer\PackageEvent;

class MyClass
{
    public static function postUpdate(Event $event)
    {
        $composer = $event->getComposer();
        // do stuff
    }

    public static function postPackageInstall(PackageEvent $event)
    {
        $installedPackage = $event->getOperation()->getPackage();
        // do stuff
    }

    public static function warmCache(Event $event)
    {
        // make cache toasty
    }
}

For more on how to use scripts see the official composer documentation - scripts.

Answered By - Pᴇʜ