{"id":28325,"date":"2018-01-10T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28325"},"modified":"2018-01-10T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:13:39","slug":"17-tips-for-using-composer-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/10\/17-tips-for-using-composer-efficiently\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Tips for Using Composer Efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Martin Hujer<\/a> has collected 17 tips for using composer efficiently<\/a>, and then added a few more after receiving the feedback on the blog post.\u00a0 I was familiar with most of these, but there are still a few that are new to me.<\/p>\n

Tip #7: Run Travis CI builds with different versions of dependencies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I knew about the Travis CI matrix configuration, but used it only for other things.\u00a0 I’ll be looking into extending it for the composer tests shortly.<\/p>\n

Tip #8: Sort packages in require and require-dev by name<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a great tip!\u00a0 I read the composer documentation several times, but somehow I missed this option.\u00a0 It is especially useful for the the way we manage projects at work (waterfall merges from templates and basic projects into more complex ones).<\/p>\n

Tip #9: Do not attempt to merge composer.lock when rebasing or merging<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here, I’m not quite sure about the whole bit on git attributes.\u00a0 Having git try to merge and generate a conflict creates a very visible problem.\u00a0 Avoiding the merge might hide things a bit until they popup much later in the CI.\u00a0 I guess I’ll have to play around with this to make up my mind.<\/p>\n

Tip #13: Validate the composer.json during the CI build<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a great tip!\u00a0 I had plenty of issues with composer validations in the past.\u00a0 Currently, we have a couple of unit tests that make sure that composer files are valid and up-to-date.\u00a0 Using a native mechanism for that is a much better option.<\/p>\n

Tip #15: Specify the production PHP version in composer.json<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds like an amazing feature which I once again missed.\u00a0 Especially now that we are still migrating some projects from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.1, and have to sort out dependency conflicts between the two versions.<\/p>\n

Tip #20: Use authoritative class map in production<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are already almost doing it, but it’s a good opportunity to verify that we utilize the functionality correctly.<\/p>\n

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Martin Hujer has collected 17 tips for using composer efficiently, and then added a few more after receiving the feedback on the blog post.\u00a0 I was familiar with most of these, but there are still a few that are new to me. 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