Composer Dist Plugin

A Composer plugin that allows zip files containing distributable assets to be downloaded and extracted within a package's directory when it's installed.

Useful for packages that need to ship compiled css/js files but don't want to track them within git.

Note: This just downloads and extracts the zip.
It doesn't compile or create them. To do that, check the the Prerequisites section below.

Example

Suppose you publish a PHP package foo/bar which expects your compiled dist assets to be located in resources/dist. Place this configuration in the composer.json for foo/bar:

{
  "name": "foo/bar",
  "require": {
    "pixelfear/composer-dist-plugin": "dev-master"
  },
  "extra": {
    "download-dist": {
      "url": "https://github.com/foo/bar/releases/download/{$version}/dist.tar.gz",
      "path": "resources/dist"
    }
  }
}

Prerequisites

This plugin only downloads and extracts an existing zip from a URL. You will need to create the zip yourself.

A good solution for this could be using a GitHub Actions workflow.

For example, this workflow will do the following steps whenever you push a tag starting with v:

• Checkout your code using Git
• Run npm install
• Compile assets using Laravel Mix
• Create a tar.gz archive
• Create a GitHub release
• Upload the tar to the release

Of course, this means that archives will only exist for tagged releases. If you are installating a package using a branch like dev-master, the zip will 404. In this case you can manually compile your assets locally.

Configuration

Multiple bundles

In the example above, a single zip (bundle) is used. However, you may configure multiple bundles to be downloaded by providing an array of bundle objects.

  "extra": {
    "download-dist": [
      {
        "url": "...",
        "path": "dist/one",
      },
      {
        "url": "...",
        "path": "dist/two"
      }
    ]
  }

Bundle options

For each bundle, the following options are available: