Extension installation: Reference the composer config in config.yml for advanced devs
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Read config.yml's composer settings and the linked “installing new extensions” documentation section first. Update that section to explain how advanced developers can use the composer configuration when loading development extensions, then verify the guidance matches the current configuration and extension workflow.
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Description
When attempting to develop locally, it is impossible to load a dev extension into Bolt without either setting it to a stable release (which is obviously not good for a new extension) or editing the composer settings in config.yml. Myself and others have hit a wall attempting to manually set minimum-stability:true in extensions/composer.json, only to have it constantly revert back to true.
I understand that the composer config vars in config.yml are not for everyone, and ideally should not be utilized most of the time. But they are there for a reason, and I think it's worth at least a mention in the installing new extensions section.
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 45
- Forks
- 189
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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