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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. myerscode/package-discovery ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) myerscode/package-discovery =========================== A package to help find plugins for your product through Composer meta data! 2025.0.0(1y ago)2625MITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing Since Sep 25Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/myerscode/package-discovery)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/myerscode/package-discovery)[ RSS](/packages/myerscode-package-discovery/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependencies (3)Versions (4)Used By (0) Package Discovery ================= [](#package-discovery) > A service to help easily find plugins for your services, using Composer metadata! 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A project which wants to disover projects will need to instantiate a `Finder` to look up the project namespace. You will then be able to consume the found metadata in the project as desired. ### Publishing project [](#publishing-project) In your `package.json` file, add a object in the `extras` object, with a key that relates to the project namespace you want to discover it. ``` { "name": "myerscode/corgis", "extra": { "myerscode": { "corgis": ["Gerald", "Rupert"], "providers": [ "Myerscode\\Corgis\\CorgiProvider" ] } } } ``` ### Consuming project [](#consuming-project) Using the `Finder` class, initiate passing in the root path, relative to the `vendor` directory. Then use the `discover` method to find all packages that have the given name in its extras field. ``` $finder = new Finder(__DIR__); // would find all installed packages that have a myerscode namespace in the extras $packages = $finder->discover('myerscode'); ``` After discovering package you would have an array of metadata for each one discovered. ``` [ "myerscode/corgis" => [ "corgis": ["Gerald", "Rupert"], "providers": [ "Myerscode\\Corgis\\CorgiProvider" ] ] ] ``` ### Avoiding discovery [](#avoiding-discovery) If you don't want to discover a specific project, then you can add some metadata in the consuming package to prevent this. You would do this by adding the package name to `avoid` under the projects namespace in the extras field of `package.json`. ``` { "name": "myerscode/demo-project", "extra": { "myerscode": { "avoid": [ "myerscode/corgis" ] } } } ``` If you want to avoid loading in all discoverable packages, simply add `*` in the avoid field. ``` { "name": "myerscode/demo-project", "extra": { "myerscode": { "avoid": [ "*" ] } } } ``` Locating a package ------------------ [](#locating-a-package) When you want to find out where a package is located on the disk, you can use the `locate` method to look up its absolute path. ``` $finder = new Finder(__DIR__); echo $finder->locate('myerscode/test-package'); // /User/fred/project-name/vendor/myerscode/test-package ``` Getting package meta for a service ---------------------------------- [](#getting-package-meta-for-a-service) To get package meta for a specific service call the `packageMetaForService` method, passing the package name and the service name. ``` $finder = new Finder(__DIR__); echo $finder->packageMetaForService('myerscode/test-package', 'myerscode'); [ "corgis": ["Gerald", "Rupert"], "providers": [ "Myerscode\\Corgis\\CorgiProvider" ] ] ``` Getting package extra --------------------- [](#getting-package-extra) To get all the extras data for a package call the `packageExtra` method. ``` $finder = new Finder(__DIR__); echo $finder->packageExtra('myerscode/test-package'); [ "myerscode" => [ "corgis": ["Gerald", "Rupert"], "providers": [ "Myerscode\\Corgis\\CorgiProvider" ] ] ] ``` Issues ------ [](#issues) Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted on the [Github Issue Tracker](https://github.com/myerscode/package-discovery/issues). Contributing ------------ [](#contributing) See the Myerscode [contributing](https://github.com/myerscode/docs/blob/master/contributing.md) page for information. License ------- [](#license) The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information. ### Health Score 36 — LowBetter than 82% of packages Maintenance43 Moderate activity, may be stable Popularity16 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity66 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. 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