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gared/polyless
==============

Composer plugin that removes unnecessary Symfony polyfill packages

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polyless
========

[](#polyless)

`polyless` is a Composer plugin that marks unnecessary `symfony/polyfill-*` packages as replaced by the root project and removes their package candidates from Composer's pool.

What it does
------------

[](#what-it-does)

The current basic implementation disables polyfills when one of these conditions is true:

- the project's PHP constraint guarantees a version that already contains the feature set of a `symfony/polyfill-phpXY` package
- the root project explicitly requires the corresponding extension, for example `ext-mbstring` for `symfony/polyfill-mbstring`
- `config.platform.php` or configured `ext-*` platform entries provide the same guarantee

Direct root requirements for a specific `symfony/polyfill-*` package are left untouched.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Add this package to your project dev dependencies:

```
composer require --dev gared/polyless
```

You need to allow this package to run as a plugin!

After that run:

```
composer update symfony/polyfill-*
```

to remove any unnecessary polyfill packages from your project.

Current examples
----------------

[](#current-examples)

### PHP polyfills

[](#php-polyfills)

If your project requires PHP 8.5:

```
{
  "require": {
    "php": "^8.5"
  }
}
```

then the plugin can replace packages such as:

- `symfony/polyfill-php80`
- `symfony/polyfill-php81`
- `symfony/polyfill-php82`
- `symfony/polyfill-php83`
- `symfony/polyfill-php84`
- `symfony/polyfill-php85`

If your project requires `ext-intl`, polyfills such as `symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme` and `symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer` can also be skipped.

### Extension polyfills

[](#extension-polyfills)

If you composer.lock contains `symfony/polyfill-mbstring` you can run the following command to require the `ext-mbstring` extension instead (of course you need to have the PHP extension installed):

```
composer require ext-mbstring
```

this will automatically remove the `symfony/polyfill-mbstring` package from your project.

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 13% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity11

Early-stage or recently created project

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![Gared](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/913630?v=4)](https://github.com/Gared "Gared (6 commits)")

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Tags

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