How are Joomla custom libraries that already have a composer.json handled?

[alexandreelise]

Hi @johanjanssens,

I saw that you consolidate composer.json files with the merge composer plugin but does it merge also all composer.json file in a custom joomla library for example?
e.g JPATH_ROOT/libraries/lib_example/composer.json
Please shed a light on that part.

[johanjanssens]

No. Composer was originally build to solve the problem of managing local dependencies per app or per site.

Joomlatools Server uses composer to load required dependencies to run it's own internal dashboard. This is totally separate and not related to using composer in a Joomla site. You can run composer in a site if you wish to load dependencies, or not. Composer is globally installed but dependencies are locally managed.

[alexandreelise]

Thanks for clarifying. Happy coding Johan.