Composer hanging while updating dependencies

Question

I tried updating a Laravel project I\'m working on today using composer update

But it hung on Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Answer 1

I found this in another article, I found that doing the following below worked. It seemed to be a cache/download issue into the composer packages cache.

composer update -vvv

Then doing the following: Add or edit your composer file to have these settings.

"repositories": [
    {
         "type": "composer", 
         "url": "https://packagist.org"
    },
    { "packagist": false }
]