simonschaufi/composer-json-manipulator

Package to load, merge and save composer.json file(s). Cleaned up from symplify/composer-json-manipulator

v1.0.0 2026-07-10 23:46 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5

MIT

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-10 23:51 UTC

README

• load composer.json as an object
• manipulate using fluent API
• save it back to a composer.json file

Install

composer require simonschaufi/composer-json-manipulator

Usage

namespace App;

use SimonSchaufi\ComposerJsonManipulator\ComposerJson;

class SomeClass
{
    public function run(): void
    {
        $composerJson = ComposerJson::fromFile(getcwd() . '/composer.json');

        // Add a PSR-4 namespace
        $autoLoad = $composerJson->getAutoload();
        $autoLoad['psr-4']['Cool\\Stuff\\'] = './lib/';

        $composerJson
            ->setAutoload($autoLoad)
            ->save(getcwd() . '/composer.json');
    }
}