PHP Composer: No Dev Mode that Sticks

Question

When you install or update a project with composer, you can tell it to skip the development related dependencies (tests, build tools, etc.) with th

Answer 1

In short: no - not, yet.

Composer's default installation mode is to install development dependencies.

As far as i know, there is only the CLI option --no-dev and no config option.

It's possible to define a config section in the composer.json of a project, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#config

But a quick glance at the source code revealed, that there is no configuration directive for this. https://github.com/composer/composer/blob/master/src/Composer/Config.php#L22

{
    "config": {
        "no-dev": "true"
    }
}

+1 for this idea. It could be a useful addition to the Config class.