How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

Question

What is the correct way to remove a package from Laravel using composer? So far I\'ve tried:

1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "requir

Answer 1

To remove a package using composer command

composer remove <package>

To install a package using composer command

composer require <package>

To install all packages which are mentioned in composer.json

composer install

To update packages

composer update

I used these for Laravel project

Answer 2

Got it working... The steps to remove a package from Laravel are:

1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "require" section)
2. Remove Service Provider from config/app.php (reference in "providers" array)
3. Remove any Class Aliases from config/app.php
4. Remove any references to the package from your code :-)
5. Run composer update vendor/package-name. This will remove the package folder from the vendor folder and will rebuild the composer autoloading map.
6. Manually delete the published files (read the comment by zwacky)

It will remove the package folder from Vendor folder

Answer 3

you can remove any package just by typing follwing command in terminal, and just remove the providers and alias you provided at the time of installing the package, if any and update the composer,

composer remove vendor/your_package_name
composer update

Answer 4

Before removing a package from composer.json declaration, please remove cache

php artisan cache:clear  
php artisan config:clear 

If you forget to remove cache and you get class not found error then please reinstall the package and clear cache and remove again.

Answer 5

**

use "composer remove vendor/package"

** This is Example: Install / Add Pakage

composer require firebear/importexportfree

Uninsall / Remove

composer remove firebear/importexportfree

Finaly after removing:

php -f bin/magento setup:upgrade

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy –f

php bin/magento indexer:reindex 

php -f bin/magento cache:clean

Answer 6

You can remove any package by typing following command in terminal, and just remove the providers and alias you provided at the time of installing the package and update the composer

composer remove <package_name>
composer update