NpmHandler

The project allow you to automatically install NPM dependencies during composer install or/and update.

Installation

Require the npm handler in your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "blazarecki/npm-handler": "0.1.*",
    }
}

And update the scripts part to run npm handler automatically on install or/and update.

{
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Scar\\NpmHandler\\Composer\\NpmHandler::install"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Scar\\NpmHandler\\Composer\\NpmHandler::install"
        ]
    }
}

Usage

Add a package.json somewhere in your project.

For example:

{
    "name": "my-app",
    "description": "description of my-app",
    "repository": {},
    "dependencies" : {
        "bower"    :  "1.2.x",
        "less"     :  "1.4.x"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "phantomjs":  "1.9.x"
    }
}

See this for more details about package.json file

Now each time you'll run composer install or composer update the command npm install will be call in the package.json dir.

You can create multiple package.json files anywhere in your project.

Configuration

In your composer.json file you can specified some packages to exclude in the extra block.

{
   "extra": {
        "npm-handler": {
            "exclude-packages": {
                "somedir",
                "otherdir/package.json"
            }
        }
    }
}

You can also specified the absolute or relative path to npm executable (useful when using multiple versions)

{
   "extra": {
        "npm-handler": {
            "npm-path": "/path/to/npm"
        }
    }
}

If you want to install devDependencies you must run composer in dev mode. composer install --dev

Enjoy and feel free to contribute !