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Hudri
Hudri

Reputation: 249

composer require (normal) and require --dev in one single CLI command

How can I use composer require vendor/normal_package and composer require vendor/dev_package --dev in one single command? I want one CLI command that requires 2 packages, one into "normal" require and one into require-dev section.

Background info: I've a composer.json file like this:

{
    "require": {
        "drupal/core": "^8.6.7"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "webflo/drupal-core-require-dev": "^8.6.7"
    }
}

Those two packages always need to be updated the same time. Usually I just do a composer update drupal/core webflo/drupal-core-require-dev --with-dependencies which works fine.

But sometimes I explicitly want to require a new minimum version, and I want to do it in a shell script in order to update multiple projects at once (no manual editing of composer.json). I can't run the two commands
composer require drupal/core:^8.6.10 composer require webflo/drupal-core-require-dev:^8.6.10
consecutively, because they depend on each other.

How can I require a normal and a dev package in one single command?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7696

Answers (1)

Hudri
Hudri

Reputation: 249

If you have got a circular dependency in your composer.json and that dependency is split across require and require-dev, then it currently is not possible to update and set a new min version with just one command. But I've found a workaround that saves a lot of time by using the require-command with --no-update option.

Below is the code I'm currently using (drupal/core is the normal package, webflo/drupal... is the dev package, version ^8.7.1 is the new minimum version I want to enforce):

# include both packages in the require section, but don't update
# this is much faster than normal require with update
composer require --no-update drupal/core:^8.7.1 webflo/drupal-core-require-dev:^8.7.1

# move the dev package back into the require-dev section
composer require --dev --no-update webflo/drupal-core-require-dev:^8.7.1

# now run the update, this will take some time (you can not use --no-dev here)
composer update drupal/core webflo/drupal-core-require-dev:^8.7.1 more_stuff/*

# optional: remove the dev-packages again (this is quite fast too)
composer install --no-dev

I won't mark the question as answered though, because this is just a time-saving workaround and not a real solution.

Upvotes: 2

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