Support question: Disable the bridge with a composer parameter?

[koehnlein]

Hi everybody,

I use your bridge in some of my projects and it works fine. But now I have a new problem, in my GitLab CI pipeline.

I run PHP tests and need to install composer packages for this. When I install them with composer install the bridge starts doing it's job. Is there a way to install the composer packages with suppressing the NPM bridge, e.g. a command like composer install --no-npm?

[ezzatron]

Currently, the only way you can do this whilst using this plugin is composer install --no-plugins.

If this were to be added as a feature, it would probably have to be done via an environment variable like COMPOSER_NPM_BRIDGE_DISABLE=1, because it looks like Composer's plugin system lets you add new commands, but not global CLI options like --no-npm.

If we're talking about an "end project" package here, the other option is to not use this plugin at all, and use make or some other task runner / build system to install only the appropriate dependencies for specific tasks. However, if we're talking about a package that gets brought in as a dependency, this is less feasible.

P.S. The --dev option basically does nothing - Composer installs dev dependencies by default. In order to not install dev dependencies you need to use --no-dev.

[koehnlein]

Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, disabling all plugins is not an option for me :-/ But if you will integrate an environment variable one day in the future, it would be great for me.

P.S. You're right. My real code does not contain the --dev parameter for install commands. ;-) I removed it from my post to not confuse other users.

[ezzatron]

Released in 4.1.0