Composer, move files from /vendor/ folder

Question

I\'ve just started using composer with PHPStorm \'cause I\'m bored of downloading dependencies from github manually. But there are some things I can\'t understand.

Compo

Answer 1

"config": {
    "vendor-dir": "path/to/wherever"
},

in your composer.json file

Answer 2

The documentation states that you can do this:

{
    "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "sites/example.com/modules/{$name}": ["vendor/package"]
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

This question is answered here.

Vendor directory is a Composer convention. Good programming practice is to prefer convention over configuration. You can reference you files and classes in a number of ways with Composer.