Where to find composer's global packages?
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For a plugin for Sublime Text I was required to install a composer package globally.
In order to do this I had to run the following command:
composer global require "asm89/twig-lint" "@stable"
The installation started running and a few seconds later the package was installed. Voila! Well, not really.
Step two was to add some lines to my Sublime Text configuration file:
{
"user": {
"paths": {
"windows": ["C:\\Users\\yourname\\.composer\\vendor\\bin"]
},
}
}
However, the plugin is not working. So I decided to check the path. And it appears there is no .composer directory in my profile directory. It isn't in my php directory either. And I can't find it anywhere.
I would like to know if there's a way to locate this directory and would appreciate any suggestions that can help me get this plugin to work.
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
You can query Composer to find where it has set the user $COMPOSER_HOME directory.
composer config --list --global
The [home] ... line refers to the default value of $COMPOSER_HOME.
The word home can be used as a single parameter as well to show the configuration value.
Example (Windows):
> composer -n config --global home
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Composer
Example (Linux):
$ composer -n config --global home
/home/<user>/.composer
Just as a final confirmation - the 'yourname' part in the configuration, would very likely need to be updated with your own Windows username - composer config will say where it put the files.
Solution 2 - Php
You can use
composer global config bin-dir --absolute
Example
PATH=$(composer global config bin-dir --absolute --quiet):$PATH
You need --absolute to get value expanded, and --quiet to discard diagnostics of composer global changing working directory. This was tested with composer 1.10.16 and 2.0.1.
See https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/9354#issuecomment-716827067
Solution 3 - Php
You may find in ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin
Solution 4 - Php
Ubuntu 20.04:
~/.config/composer/vendor
Solution 5 - Php
Run the command
composer config --list --global | grep -w home
You can find the find the [home] with composer path, similar to this one.
[home] /home/example_username/.config/composer
Solution 6 - Php
For composer v2:
composer global config --list
Check the output and find [vendor-dir] parameter. Or use grep:
composer global config --list | grep "vendor-dir"
Solution 7 - Php
On Windows, mine was /Users/taylor/AppData/Roaming/Composer/bin
Solution 8 - Php
~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/laravel adding this to my bashrc file as a alias works on ubuntu 20.04