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lemric/composer-cleaner
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Victor The Cleaner: removes unnecessary files from vendor directory.

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Victor The Cleaner for Composer
===============================

[](#victor-the-cleaner-for-composer)

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This tool removes unnecessary files and directories from Composer `vendor` directory.

The Cleaner leaves only directories containing the source files needed to use the libraries. These are located according to the [autoload section](https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#autoload) of `composer.json` in each installed library. Conversely for example, tests are files that are not needed for use, so they are removed.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require dg/composer-cleaner

```

Then simply run `composer update` or `composer require ...` and the Cleaner automatically removes unnecessary files when new libraries are installed.

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Some libraries also requires other files/directories, which the the Cleaner judged to be unnecessary. In this case, you can list them (specify paths to be ignored), in the configuration and the tool will keep them. Or you can specify that some libraries should not be cleaned at all.

Simply add a `extra > cleaner-ignore` section to `composer.json` file:

```
{
	"extra": {
		"cleaner-ignore": {
			"slevomat/eet-client": [  // name of package
				"wsdl*"               // list of files or subdirectories, you can use wildcards `*` and `?`
			],

			"mpdf/mpdf": true         // ignores whole package
		}
	}
}
```

Support Project
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[](#support-project)

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###  Health Score

19

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LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance29

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity17

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 73.5% 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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