Composer Local Repositories

The composer plugin to quickly add local repositories for development purposes, without the need to update your composer.json file.

How to install

composer require global ollieread/composer-local-repositories

How to use

Add a repositories.json file to any project that you want to add a custom repository to. The file needs to contain a valid composer repositories key. For example:

repositories.json

{
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "path",
      "url": "../local-folder"
    }
  ]
}

During a composer install or composer update, the plugin will locate the repositories.json file; and prepend all the configured repositories. If composer finds any of the require packages inside these repositories, it will install the package from that repository instead.

Configuration

To configure the plugin, you can provide extra configuration keys under a local-repositories key in the extra section.

• trigger-commands An array of composer commands that loads the local repositories.json file (default: install and update)
• ignore-flags An array of flags on which to ignore the local repositories.json file (default: --no-dev and --prefer-source)
• force-dev Whether to update the constraint of any found packages from local repositories with @dev ( default: true)

Full configuration example with default values:

global composer.json

{
  "extra": {
    "local-repositories": {
      "trigger-commands": [
        "install",
        "update"
      ],
      "ignore-flags": [
        "no-dev",
        "prefer-source"
      ],
      "force-dev": true
    }
  }
}