FLOW3 Barebone manifest

composer.json

{
    "name": "christianjul/barebone-flow3",
    "description" : "Barebone FLOW3 project",
    "license": "LGPL-3.0+",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Christian Jul Jensen",
            "email": "julle@typo3.org"
        }
    ],
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "http://ci.typo3.robertlemke.net/job/composer-packages/ws/repository/"
        }
    ],
    "config": {
            "vendor-dir": "Packages/Vendor",
            "bin-dir": "bin"
    },
    "require": {
        "typo3/flow3": "dev-master",
        "typo3/welcome": "dev-master"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "typo3/kickstart": "dev-master",
        "mikey179/vfsstream": "1.1.*"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "scripts": {
               "post-update-cmd": "TYPO3\\FLOW3\\Composer\\InstallerScripts::postUpdateAndInstall",
               "post-install-cmd": "TYPO3\\FLOW3\\Composer\\InstallerScripts::postUpdateAndInstall"
    }
}

additional note to have it here "at hand": installing Composer to the local directory is done via

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

This installs a composer.phpar file which can be used for installing like stated above (eg php composer.phpar install --dev)