在小项目上使用composer

Question

I want to use composer on my small Php-project (pure PHP, no frameworks), and i want to get some libraries (jquery, bootstrap) by composer, when i get jquery, composer pulling some symfony and kriswallsmith dependencies, they are nessaserry and I just need to ignore them?

Links :

https://packagist.org/packages/twbs/bootstrap

https://packagist.org/packages/components/jquery

Composer:

{
    "require" : {
        "components/jquery": "dev-master",
        "twbs/bootstrap": "3.2.*@dev"
    }
}

Answer 1

Composer is a PHP dependency manager. It is created for one specific goal: Management of PHP packages.

You should not use Composer to include any package from another language, it isn't created for it and it is really not good in it. For Javascript/HTML/CSS packages, you should take a look at Bower.

Btw, none of the packages you named in your post are installed because of the packages you listed in your code. Use composer depends ... (where ... is the package name) to see why there were included.