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tacman/composer-json-manipulator
================================

Package to load, merge and save composer.json file(s)

11.4(2y ago)0431MITPHPPHP >=8.1

Since Mar 30Pushed 2y agoCompare

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Manipulate composer.json with Beautiful Object API
==================================================

[](#manipulate-composerjson-with-beautiful-object-api)

The original code for this repository is now marked as deprecated, I use this fork simply to avoid seeing the deprecation warning.

see

- load to `composer.json` to an object
- use handful methods
- merge it with others
- print it back to `composer.json` in human-like format

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require tacman/composer-json-manipulator
```

Add to your `config/config.php`:

```
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\ContainerConfigurator;
use Symplify\ComposerJsonManipulator\ValueObject\ComposerJsonManipulatorConfig;

return static function (ContainerConfigurator $containerConfigurator): void {
    $containerConfigurator->import(ComposerJsonManipulatorConfig::FILE_PATH);
};
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
namespace App;

use Symplify\ComposerJsonManipulator\ComposerJsonFactory;

class SomeClass
{
    /**
     * @var ComposerJsonFactory
     */
    private $composerJsonFactory;

    public function __construct(ComposerJsonFactory $composerJsonFactory)
    {
        $this->composerJsonFactory = $composerJsonFactory;
    }

    public function run(): void
    {
        // ↓ instance of \Symplify\ComposerJsonManipulator\ValueObject\ComposerJson
        $composerJson = $this->composerJsonFactory->createFromFilePath(getcwd() . '/composer.json');

        // Add a PRS-4 namespace
        $autoLoad = $composerJson->getAutoload();
        $autoLoad['psr-4']['Cool\\Stuff\\'] = './lib/';
        $composerJson->setAutoload($autoLoad);
        $this->jsonFileManager->printComposerJsonToFilePath($composerJson, $composerJson->getFileInfo()->getRealPath());
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95% 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 ~124 days

Total

3

Last Release

888d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/21b39551f92ed4143772c622f9e571589c5a72c96ab3c53fe67489ce0d83e806?d=identicon)[tacman1123](/maintainers/tacman1123)

---

Top Contributors

[![actions-user](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/65916846?v=4)](https://github.com/actions-user "actions-user (437 commits)")[![TomasVotruba](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/924196?v=4)](https://github.com/TomasVotruba "TomasVotruba (17 commits)")[![tacman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/619585?v=4)](https://github.com/tacman "tacman (6 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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