PHP Composer: No Dev Mode that Sticks

Question

When you install or update a project with composer, you can tell it to skip the development related dependencies (tests, build tools, etc.) with th

Answer 1

This was really annoying, so I finally wrote a simple bash script which asks about environment and run correct command:

#! /bin/bash

read -p "Which environment use to deploy: (P)roduction (T)est (D)ev? (p/t/d): " -n 1 -r
echo

if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[^PpTtDd]$ ]]; then
    echo "Incorrect environment";
    exit 1;
fi

# tasks to run before composer install (svn up/git pull)

if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Pp]$ ]]; then
    composer install --prefer-dist --no-dev --classmap-authoritative
elif [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Tt]$ ]]; then
    composer install --prefer-dist --classmap-authoritative
elif [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Dd]$ ]]; then
    composer install
fi

# additional tasks after composer install (clear cache, migrations, etc.)

Saved it in bin/deploy in project and added execute permissions. So now I'm using bin/deploy instead of composer install:

I also put other common tasks there (pull changes from VCS, clear cache, run migrations, etc.), so I have even less things to do and remember during deployment :).

Answer 2

In short: no - not, yet.

Composer's default installation mode is to install development dependencies.

As far as i know, there is only the CLI option --no-dev and no config option.

It's possible to define a config section in the composer.json of a project, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#config

But a quick glance at the source code revealed, that there is no configuration directive for this. https://github.com/composer/composer/blob/master/src/Composer/Config.php#L22

{
    "config": {
        "no-dev": "true"
    }
}

+1 for this idea. It could be a useful addition to the Config class.