Published: Tue, 01/12/16Download this episodeComposer

• What is composer?
  • Dependency Manager for PHP
• How does it relate to Drush Make?
  • Surprisingly similar
  • “Getting off the island”
• What can you do with composer on a Drupal site?
  • download dependencies, drupal modules, themes, profiles, drush, external libraries etc
• How do you download contrib modules?
  • https://packagist.drupal-composer.org/
• How do you download contrib themes?
  • ^^
• Can you specify where to download project? ie: modules/contrib and modules/custom?
  • composer/installers & davidbarratt/custom-installer
• Where do you store custom modules/themes?
  • Two methods: Committing to your repo or creating separate repos
  • Reference repo in you composer.json
  • Toran Proxy
  • davidbarratt/custom-installer
• How can you specify and download a library to go with a module?
  • module should specify it in composer.json
  • if not submit a patch, and add to your composer.json for now
• Patches
  • cweagans/composer-patches

Use Cases

• drupal/drupal vs drupal/core
  • http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/tree/composer.json
  • If you want to use the project-repo/web
  • composer create-project drupal/drupal
• Composer template for Drupal Projects
  • https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project
• Build sites from scratch with composer install
• Update drupal/modules/themes/etc. with composer update

Episode Links: Tim on drupal.orgTim on TwitterTim’s blogComposerDrupal Specific PackagistDrupal Composer templateSpecify custom package typesApply patchesToran ProxyTags: Drupal 8Composerplanet-drupal