How to develop and include a Composer package?

Question

Instead of creating a new repository, you can tell composer to use any local path:

https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#path

For instance, lets say that you have your PHP projects under ~/devel/projects

You may have your main project in ~/devel/projects/main_project, and your “local package” in ~/devel/projects/local_package

Define your composer configuration for the local package. In ~/devel/projects/local_package/composer.json.

{
    "name": "your_vendor_id/your_local_package",
    ...
}

Then, you can edit ~/devel/projects/main_project/composer.json and link to your local package via path repo:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "path",
        "url": "../local_package",
        "options": {
            "symlink": true
        }
    }
],
"require": {
    "your_vendor_id/your_local_package": "dev-master",
    ...
}

More info on this link (not written by me but has a good explanation on this subject):

https://carlosbuenosvinos.com/working-at-the-same-time-in-a-project-and-its-dependencies-composer-and-path-type-repository/

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