Notes about advanced composer

adding better timeout for composer

COMPOSER_TIMEOUT=600 php -d memory_limit=2G path/to/composer.phar $@

better composer memory limit

# composer_wrapper.sh
php -d memory_limit=2G /path/to/composer.phar $@

alias composer='path/to/composer_wrapper.sh'

composer and docker

1. Checkout just the composer.* files to the docker build dir
2. Run docker build
  1. Copy just the composer.* files into the build image
  2. Run composer install with flags
  3. Copy in source files
  4. Run composer dump-autoload --optimize

install flags for composer

# Super GH speed
--prefer-dist

# Small deployment, ignores dev packages
--no-dev

# Power
--optimize-autoloader or dump-autoload --optimize

oauth token issues

# Github rate limits api calls

composer config -g github-oauth.github.com <token>

# Create token at https://github.com/settings/tokens

xdebug warning

# They fixed it in 1.3.0
composer self-update