Is there a way to uninstall dev dependencies with composer?
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I want to uninstall (and not remove from my composer.json) dev dependencies on a project.
Is there a simple way to do this ?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
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.
Solution 2 - Php
You can use following command after removing the dependencies in composer.json file.
composer update
Solution 3 - Php
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 :)
Solution 4 - Php
This is not the strict answer but may help someone.
To remove a specific dev dependency:
composer remove --dev squizlabs/php_codesniffer
Solution 5 - Php
I answered later but it could help someone else:
composer remove friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle (for example)