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symbiotic/packages-loader-filesytem
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Allows you to add packages to the core of the Symbiotic framework from the file system.

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Symbiotic package loader from the file system
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[](#symbiotic-package-loader-from-the-file-system)

Install
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[](#install)

```
composer require symbiotic/packages-loader-filesytem

```

How it works?
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[](#how-it-works)

The component traverses all allowed directories (up to 3 levels of nesting), searches for `composer.json` files and reads a section from them reads the `extra->symbiotic` section to add a package to the core of the Symbiotic framework.

Setting up Directories
----------------------

[](#setting-up-directories)

Adding directories to search for Symbiotic packages is done in the main config of the framework:

```