Composer Installers Dir

The composer-installers-dir is a small composer plugin that allows you to specify a directory where all packages handled by composer/installers will be downloaded to.

Composer supports overriding the vendor location using vendor-dir out of the box.
This is not the case for packages using composer/installers.
This project allows you to define similarly an installer-dir in the extra section of your composer.json.

To install it:

composer require vever001/composer-installers-dir

This is useful if you have a composer project and you want to build it to another folder (e.g: for production release). Here's an example to build the whole project in a dist folder for production release:

DIR="dist"
composer config vendor-dir "$DIR/vendor"
composer config extra.installer-dir "$DIR"
composer install --no-dev
composer config --unset extra.installer-dir
composer config --unset vendor-dir
cp composer.json composer.lock $DIR
composer dump-autoload --working-dir="$DIR" --no-dev --optimize

Which will:

• Add the following in the composer.json

    "extra": {
      ...
      "installer-dir": "dist"
    },
    "config": {
      ...
      "vendor-dir": "dist/vendor"
    }
  

• Build the project to the dist folder (with --no-dev)
• Revert the changes to the composer.json
• Copy composer.json and composer.lock to the dist folder
• Update the autoloader in the dist folder to resolve paths