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insite/composer-dangling-locked-deps
====================================

Detect dangling Composer locked dependencies

0.4.1(1y ago)210.2k↓71.9%1[2 PRs](https://github.com/prudloff-insite/composer-dangling-locked-deps/pulls)1GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPCI failing

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Composer Dangling Locked Deps
=============================

[](#composer-dangling-locked-deps)

This Composer plugin allows you to detect dangling locked dependencies.

That is dependencies that are present in your `composer.lock` file but are not actually required by your project or one of its dependencies.

This can happen, for example, when merging changes to `composer.lock` with conflicts; a dependency that has been removed from `composer.json`will not be correctly removed from `composer.lock` and will continue to be installed.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require insite/composer-dangling-locked-deps --dev
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
composer dangling-locked-deps
```

You can then call `composer remove` on those dependencies.

GrumPHP task
------------

[](#grumphp-task)

This package also provides a [GrumPHP](https://github.com/phpro/grumphp) task.

You can add it to your config like this:

```
---
parameters:
  extensions:
    - ComposerDanglingLockedDeps\GrumPHP\Loader
  tasks:
    composer_dangling_locked_deps: ~
```

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance67

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 64.3% 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 ~195 days

Recently: every ~360 days

Total

9

Last Release

615d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/87d4515168f3d16dcaf23af7184edbe8ef073c99dddd36b3ca5b2953ba415e03?d=identicon)[prudloff-insite](/maintainers/prudloff-insite)

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---

Top Contributors

[![prudloff-insite](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50333926?v=4)](https://github.com/prudloff-insite "prudloff-insite (18 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (10 commits)")

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/insite-composer-dangling-locked-deps/health.svg)

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```

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