https://github.com/henzeb/composer-link

Simplifies development of libraries by linking them
https://github.com/henzeb/composer-link

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Simplifies development of libraries by linking them

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/henzeb/composer-link
• Owner: henzeb
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-10-21T14:41:21.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-11T09:24:06.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-24T01:55:17.232Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: composer-plugin, link, package-development
• Language: PHP
• Homepage:
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# composer-link

Simplifies development of libraries by linking them into your project. loosely based on npm link and [ro0NL/composer-link](https://github.com/ro0NL/composer-link), which is currently no longer updated and has some dependency errors in some cases.

## Installation

If you want to install this globally:

    composer global require henzeb/composer-link

If you want to install this per project:

    composer require henzeb/composer-link

## Usage

Every link made will be transformed to a relative path. This is useful in situations where you want to test inside a docker container or virtual machine.

### Link

To link a local package you must be sure to have it required first. After that you can just point to the location where your package resides:

    composer link ../path/to/your/package

### Unlink

### Linking/unlinking previously linked packages

If you have linked a package before, composer-link has stored the path inside a file called `linked.json`.  Whenever you are not developing and need the package version that was actually installed, just call the following:

    composer unlink

 

And when you want to continue developing

    composer link

  

  you can add the package name to specify a specific package if needed.

    composer link yourname/your-package

### configuration

This package requires no configuration and works out of the box. You can however change the location/filename of this file by adding `link` with the path where you want the configuration to be stored inside the `extra` parameter of your composer.json of your project.

    ...

    "extra": {

        "link":"path/to/your/linked.json"

    },

    ...