Install Craft using Composer

[angrybrad]

Created by: Potherca (potherca@hotmail.com) on 2015/05/02 21:27:13 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 15

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To enhance the developer experience it would be nice to be able to just run composer create-project craft/craft-standard-edition my_project_name to start working on a new Craft project.

Composer installers aren't that difficult to make and all of the other cool kids have 'm too! http://composer.github.io/installers/

[angrybrad]

Posted by Timothy Kelty (timkelty@gmail.com) on 2015/04/02 12:33:05 +0000

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There already is a craft-plugin Composer installer for plugins: https://github.com/composer/installers

There would be a lot of benefits to installing/updating Craft itself through Composer:

• Shared autoloading of Craft and dependencies

• Command line installation/updates of plugins and Craft itself

• Versioning

• Enforcement of "platform packages" for php versions, https://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md#platform-packages

• If Craft's dependencies were installed as Composer dependencies, a dev could hypothetically swap one out for a different version if needed. E.g. suppose a dev wants to use an updated version of Guzzle in a plugin, which Craft also uses internally. Currently that isn't really possible, but if Guzzle was simply a dependency of the craft composer package, a dev would be able to override the requirement and specify their own.

[timkelty]

Oh happy day. Close it, @takobell!

[angrybrad]

Possible in the latest Craft 3 beta. Thanks, Tim!