cebe / assetfree-yii2

A composer package that allows you to install yii2 without composer-asset-plugin

cebe/assetfree-yii2 composer package

A composer package that allows you to install yii2 without composer-asset-plugin.

How to use?

Just require cebe/assetfree-yii2 instead of yiisoft/yii2 in your composer.json.

Why?

Yii2 currently depends on Asset packages to make it really easy to create frontend applications as it directly provides Widgets and Javascript/CSS components out of the box. Therefore, the composer-asset-plugin is used which allows to manage frontend dependencies directly in composer.json.

Sometimes however, these frontend components are not needed, e.g. if you use Yii to create a Console Application, Background workers or a REST API. So if you do not want to install the composer-asset-plugin on your production servers because you do not need any asset functionality anyway you may use this package instead of requiring yiisoft/yii2 directly.

How does this work?

Magic: https://github.com/cebe/assetfree-yii2/blob/2.0.0/composer.json#L9-L14 :)

This package claims to "provide" the required asset packages which are only available when composer-asset-plugin is installed. In reallity no asset packages are installed, so this is only useful in cases where you do not need them.

assetfree-yii2's Issues

consider a guide to using bower as alternative

Thanks for this repo! Great idea, I hate the fxp plugin because it always seems to bug when composer updates, and its also very slow.

Do you use bower instead? Are you able to give a quick-start guide to using bower to get the required assets, (including making sure they go into the right folders)?

Please upgrade version to 2.0.45

PHP 8 compatibility

Add support for Yii 2.0.8

I'm not sure how to do it exactly with a pull request (can I do a pull request for a tag, or a branch?), but could you add support for Yii 2.0.8?

Please upgrade version to 2.0.16

Please add support for Yii 2.0.16

Consider using "replace" instead of "provide"

This may make it work even if composer-asset-plugin is installed.

https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#replace

You break the compatibility of fxp/composer-asset-plugin

@cebe,

First of all, thank you for your support of the Composer plugin Fxp Composer Asset Plugin.

But with your workaround on Packagist using the provide, you break the compatibility of the plugin.

Indeed, Composer first check packages on Packagist, and uses the VCS Repositories after. Now that you reference packages under the virtual vendor bower-asset in Packagist, Composer considers that the package exists on Packagist.

Please remove your Packagist references.

For more details, see fxpio/composer-asset-plugin#268 and #1.

Best regards

Please upgrade version to 2.0.43

Please upgrade this for support Yii 2.0.43. Thanks!

2.0.13 does not prevent bower-asset/inputmask installation

$ composer why bower-asset/inputmask
yiisoft/yii2  2.0.13  requires  bower-asset/inputmask (~3.2.2 | ~3.3.5)