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Yohan G.
Yohan G.

Reputation: 1186

Is there a way to uninstall dev dependencies with composer?

I want to uninstall (and not remove from my composer.json) dev dependencies on a project.

Is there a simple way to do this ?

Upvotes: 94

Views: 61919

Answers (5)

William Rossier
William Rossier

Reputation: 971

I answered later but it could help someone else: composer remove friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle (for example)

Upvotes: 2

SandroMarques
SandroMarques

Reputation: 6534

This is not the strict answer but may help someone.

To remove a specific dev dependency:

composer remove --dev squizlabs/php_codesniffer

Upvotes: 21

Koray Güclü
Koray Güclü

Reputation: 2898

You can use following command after removing the dependencies in composer.json file.

composer update

Upvotes: 45

Seldaek
Seldaek

Reputation: 42036

Running install or update with --no-dev should now remove dev requirements and their dependencies.

Original answer for historical purposes:

Actually no. You can manually rm -rf them from the vendor dir of course, but composer offers no way to uninstall the dev requirements after you did an install with --dev. It's not a huge use case but could warrant a new command line switch, if you would like to report an issue on github.

Upvotes: 99

Blizz
Blizz

Reputation: 8400

Came over this question when looking for the same answer. You can now uninstall installed dev dependencies by simply doing:

composer --no-dev update

It will remove all dev packages that it finds. Though it would interest people landing here the same way I did :)

Upvotes: 29

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