Multiple projects - 1 package

Question

I'm working with multiple projects, each one separated from the others in my server. So my problem is that I have a Core project that have all the functions I need, and in Laravel projects it's annoying to copy/paste everything every time. I was thinking to create a package and install it in all my Laravel projects via composer, but it bothers me the fact that every time I want to add a feature or perform a minor bug fix, I will have to do a composer update in every project (I have more than 20 actually).

I just came up with some ideas, let me know what do you think about it and if you will use some different idea:

• Create a Model/Class that includes my main php core library directly from the server (Remember that I have all the projects in the same server). I will just need to call the Model/class and it will import all the functions. I will just need to keep updated the main library code every time I perform a minor bug fix or any new implementation.
• Create a package where inside will have all code I could need to use in all projects (main library). This would be perfect, since I want just use the composer install command get the package installed in my project. I'm not concerned at all with this solution, because I have more than 20 diferent projects and I will need to do more than 20 composer update every time I perform a minor bug fix or new implementation.
• The last one is to do a generic composer where it contains all the packages I would need (almost all the projects use the same composer.json) and create a symlink between all the projects. I will install the packages in one folder and keep that updated everytime I perform some new task, and the symlink will keep the folders updated in every project.

What do you think about that options? I think I will go for the 3rd one, but wanna know your opinions or if you have the same problem and works with other solutions.

Answer 1

Or you could create a bash script that runs composer update for all of your projects.

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/www/website.com && composer update package/name
cd /var/www/website2.com && composer update package/name
cd /var/www/website3.com && composer update package/name