README

Purpose

A simple tool what can be used to check if all the used packages are required explicitly in the composer.json file.

Reason

Trying to explain the problem by an example: There is a library called libraryA what uses another library libraryB, and there is an application called applicationA what uses libraryA and libraryB as well.

When a developer upgrades the libraryB package in libraryA via composer, he doesn't have to bump the major version of libraryA.

After libraryA is updated in applicationA the libraryB package will be updated as well automatically what can break the functionality of the application.

The solution

To avoid the situation explained above, all the used packages should be required explicitly in the application's composer.json, both libraryA and libraryB.

This tool helps to identify the packages to require.

Usage

Simply call vendor/bin/dependency-validator from the root of the project.

Config

A configuration can be defined in the root of the project. The filename has to be dependency-validator.json.

Can contain the following settings:

excludedNamespaces

Contains an array of strings with the namespaces what should be excluded from the validation process.