New dependencies for Formie 3.x.x

[martinhellwagner]

Question

I've just updated Formie to 3.0.0-beta.8 with Craft 5.0.5 in order to test out the new version. I was surprised to see that Formie now requires the verbb/auth and verbb/base packages. What's the reason for these new dependencies, and will these packages be required after the beta version as well?

Additional context

"craftcms/cms": "5.0.5",
"verbb/auth": "2.0.0-beta.2",
"verbb/base": "3.0.0-beta.3",
"verbb/formie": "3.0.0-beta.8"

[engram-design]

Formie has always required the verbb/base just like every other Verbb plugin.

We also use the verbb/auth module to streamline the integrations that use OAuth. In Formie 2.x, we had all the handling of tokens and auth in Formie itself, which seems like a lot of double-handling, and something that could be better handled through a dedicated and abstracted package.

Is there an issue with these dependencies for you? They're otherwise here to stay though.

[martinhellwagner]

If I'm not mistaken, those dependencies were never required explicitly in the composer.json file? We're using multiple Verbb plugins successfully in a range of projects, but never until Formie 3.x.x we had to require the verbb/base dependency separately. I understand the issue about verbb/auth – is the functionality of this package used in another plugin too?

In general, we want to keep our composer.json file light and add new packages only when we really have to.

[engram-design]

You certainly shouldn't have to include it specifically in your own composer.json, it's part of our dependencies

It might be due to the beta status of the package - what method did you use to install Formie 3.x? Did you get a warning about verbb/base and verbb/auth when you installed Formie?

[martinhellwagner]

I guess that notion with the beta status makes sense, yes. I updated the version number of Craft and Formie, then tried to run composer update – this is what I got:

[engram-design]

Ah right, installing with composer require "verbb/formie:^3.0.0-beta.8" -w should be enough to get things sorted I believe!

[martinhellwagner]

While this works for Formie, the same issue arises with all other Verbb beta packages. It is satisfactory for me to know the reason though, and I'll be eagerly awaiting the non-beta versions of those packages. Thanks so much!

[engram-design]

I think using the -w flag will get around that, but non-betas won’t be far away anyway