frontpack/composer-assets-plugin

Composer plugin for installing of assets.

v1.0.0 2025-06-20 19:23 UTC

Requires

• php: 8.0 - 8.4
• composer-plugin-api: ^2.0

BSD-3-Clause

• Jan Pecha

README

Composer plugin for installing assets.

Installation

Use Composer:

composer require frontpack/composer-assets-plugin

Library requires PHP 8.0 or later.

Commands

• composer refresh-assets - refresh files in assets directory

Assets configuration

Packages

• assets-files in section extra
  • true - symlinks whole package directory
  • file path - symlinks one file or content of directory
  • list of file paths - symlinks files/directories

Example:

{
	"extra": {
		"assets-files": [
			"static/plugin.js",
			"static/plugin.css",
			"static/icons.png"
		]
	}
}

• static/plugin.js - symlinks file to assets/org/package/plugin.js
• static/plugin.css - symlinks file to assets/org/package/plugin.css
• static/icons.png - symlinks file to assets/org/package/icons.png

Or you can use simple:

{
	"extra": {
		"assets-files": "static"
	}
}

with same result.

Root package

• assets-dir - directory for installing of assets, default assets, relative to vendor-dir
• assets-directory - alias for assets-dir
• assets-files - list of asset files in incompatible packages, it overrides assets-files from installed packages
• assets-strategy - install strategy for assets
  • auto - select strategy by platform (default value)
  • copy - copy all assets, default strategy on Windows
  • symlink - create relative symlinks, default strategy on non-Windows platforms
• assets-target - target directory for specific packages, relative to vendor-dir, must be out of assets-dir

Example:

{
	"extra": {
		"assets-dir": "public",
		"assets-files": {
			"org/package": true,
			"org/package2": "js/calendar.js",
			"org/package3": [
				"static/plugin.js",
				"static/plugin.css",
				"static/icons.png"
			]
		},
		"assets-target": {
			"ckeditor/ckeditor": "admin/wysiwyg"
		}
	}
}

• org/package - symlinks whole package directory to public/org/package
• org/package2 - symlinks file js/calendar.js to public/org/package2/calendar.js
• org/package3
  • static/plugin.js - symlinks file to public/org/package3/plugin.js
  • static/plugin.css - symlinks file to public/org/package3/plugin.css
  • static/icons.png - symlinks file to public/org/package3/icons.png
• ckeditor/ckeditor - symlinks files to admin/wysiwyg

Default mapping

Plugin provides default mapping for selected incompatible packages. You can override this mapping in your composer.json.

List of packages with default mapping:

• bower-asset/tiny-slider
• ckeditor/ckeditor
• components/jquery
• enyo/dropzone
• nette/forms
• o5/grido

Where find supported packages?

Some libraries and packages support Composer by default. For other exists shim-repositories:

• https://github.com/components
• https://github.com/frontpack

Always you can search packages on Packagist.

License: New BSD License
Author: Jan Pecha, https://www.janpecha.cz/