NPM / Bower asset management in Contao / Composer

[tristanlins]

today I read the comments in the composer/composer repository for the topic "bower" support in composer. The following ticket was really interesting: https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/3078

Finally this plugin that support npm and bower was the result of the discussion and development: https://github.com/francoispluchino/composer-asset-plugin

According to our components plugin support, we should also support this plugin and should think about special search modes:

• search in composer
• search in npm
• search in bower

/cc @discordier @frontendschlampe @tim-bec

[tim-bec]

Wow, very interesting approach. double +1 for that

[discordier]

I see a problem with that, namely:

Warning!

Currently the plugin only works in "global" mode, the PR #3082 will allow the plugin to work in "project" mode

That PR is on hold for good reason as it doubles the solving time in composer which already is a big issue for us in shared hosting environment.

Enforcing the installation of this plugin on every instance will most likely be unnecessary for the average user, therefore we might want to add a setting in the expert settings in the like of "enable bower/npm installer" or something like that but most DEFINATELY do not make that the default. At least not for the time being.

[tristanlins]

@discordier yeah, I also read this warning. I cleared the milestone for the moment, lets see what happen with the PR https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/3082 which also solve some issues with our plugin.

[francoispluchino]

If your still interested, a new version of the PR composer/composer#3082 is available.

You can see the details of the operation here.

[tristanlins]

@francoispluchino wow, that sounds great, thx :+1: :-)