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hardpixel/composer-janitor
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A composer cleanup plugin, to remove tests and documentation to save space

v0.3.1(9y ago)323MITPHP

Since Mar 29Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Composer Janitor Plugin
=======================

[](#composer-janitor-plugin)

Cleanup Composer packages to remove unneeded files and folders if you intend to keep you project dependencies in version control. The plugin removes files that belong to 4 default rule groups ([docs](https://github.com/hardpixel/composer-janitor/blob/master/src/Plugin.php#L213), [tests](https://github.com/hardpixel/composer-janitor/blob/master/src/Plugin.php#L242), [system](https://github.com/hardpixel/composer-janitor/blob/master/src/Plugin.php#L266), [wp](https://github.com/hardpixel/composer-janitor/blob/master/src/Plugin.php#L279)) from all the project dependencies when you run `composer install` or `composer-update`. You can configure extra rule groups or disable default groups by adding options to the composer.json file.

### Configure

[](#configure)

You can configure Composer Janitor Plugin by adding a `cleanup` key in your composer.json.

`disable` : Disable default rule groups
`rules` : Define custom rule groups
`packages` : Define rules to specified packages

Below you can see an example configuration.

```
"config": {
  "cleanup": {
    "disable": ["system"],
    "rules": {
      "custom": [
        ".git*",
        ".idea",
        ".htaccess",
        ".editorconfig",
        ".phpstorm.meta.php",
        ".php_cs",
        "*.iml",
        "composer.lock",
        "bower*"
      ]
    },
    "packages": {
      "masterminds/html5": ["sami.php", "bin"],
      "querypath/querypath": ["patches", "bin", "phar"],
      "mustache/mustache": "vendor",
      "pelago/emogrifier": "Configuration",
      "wpackagist-plugin/piklist": "add-ons",
      "wpackagist-plugin/polylang": "lingotek"
    }
  }
}

```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

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 ~24 days

Recently: every ~46 days

Total

13

Last Release

3456d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4119508?v=4)[Jonian Guveli](/maintainers/jonian)[@jonian](https://github.com/jonian)

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Top Contributors

[![jonian](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4119508?v=4)](https://github.com/jonian "jonian (20 commits)")

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Tags

composerpackagistphp

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