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davidpeach/composer-manuscript
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A quick-start tool for building composer packages locally

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composer-manuscript
===================

[](#composer-manuscript)

*The playgrounds functionality is currently broken but will be fixing this very soon*

Manuscript is a tool to help you with developing and testing composer packages on your computer.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`composer global require davidpeach/composer-manuscript`

How it works
------------

[](#how-it-works)

Once installed, you just assign a local directory as being a "manuscript" directory.

So you could do this:

```
cd ~/my-local-packages

manuscript init
```

The `manuscript init` command just creates a `.manuscript` file in the current directory, along with two folders:

- packages
- playgrounds

**./packages** is where you place any packages that you are building.

**./playgrounds** is where any known frameworks can be installed for you and have your package in development installed into. So for example, you could be developing a laravel package and want a local laravel installation to manually test things in. With the `manuscript play` command, you can tell Manuscript to download a copy of Laravel and use the repository symlink functionality to install your package into that Laravel installation for testing.

How to contribute
-----------------

[](#how-to-contribute)

### Setting up

[](#setting-up)

```
1. Clone this repo.
2. Run `composer install`.
3. Run `composer test` to check the test suite passes on your machine.

```

### Local Scratchpad

[](#local-scratchpad)

### Thank You for looking.

[](#thank-you-for-looking)

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~33 days

Recently: every ~149 days

Total

25

Last Release

1002d ago

Major Versions

0.3.1-alpha → 1.0.02021-05-27

1.0.1 → 2.0.02021-06-02

2.0.1 → 3.0.02021-09-29

3.0.1 → 4.0.02021-10-06

4.0.3 → 5.0.02021-11-04

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7faf5eee1f055a85788c44936b8995eaab6dfb004e7854ec747ccb272e91ee?d=identicon)[davidpeach](/maintainers/davidpeach)

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Top Contributors

[![davidpeach](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1392924?v=4)](https://github.com/davidpeach "davidpeach (148 commits)")

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Tags

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