PHP composer xdebug warning

Question

New to PHP. Working on a PHP project and have xdebug enabled to be able to debug my php applications. The production server does not have xdebug enabled because it is handled by

Answer 1

Modern versions of Composer can work around having XDebug enabled by default for the CLI SAPI. It spawns a new PHP process with the XDebug extension disabled in case it is detected.

You can disable this behaviour by setting the following environment variable:

COMPOSER_ALLOW_XDEBUG=1

Found this in the documentation: https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#xdebug-impact-on-composer