Imposter Plugin
Composer plugin that wraps all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.
Built with ♥ by Typist Tech
Imposter Plugin is an open source project and completely free to use.
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Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins. Imposter Plugin is a composer plugin wrapper for Imposter.
Why?
Because of the lack of dependency management in WordPress, if two plugins bundled conflicting versions of the same package, hard-to-reproduce bugs arise. Monkey patching composer vendor packages, wrapping them inside your own namespace is a less-than-ideal solution to avoid such conflicts.
See:
Install
Installation should be done via composer, details of how to install composer can be found at https://getcomposer.org/.
First, add Imposter configuration in your composer.json
"extra": {
"imposter": {
"namespace": "My\\App\\Vendor",
"excludes": [
"dummy/dummy-excluded"
]
}
}
Then, install via composer cli
composer require typisttech/imposter-plugin
See: Imposter readme for details.
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Usage
Sit Back and Relax
Once installed, this plugin hooks into composer install, composer update and composer dump-autoload, automatically run imposter for you.
Besides, imposter plugin autoloads all modified files as classmap.
When those events triggered, this plugin:
- looks for
/path/to/project/root/composer.json - finds out vendor-dir
- finds out all required packages, including those required by dependencies
- finds out all autoload paths for all required packages
- prefixes all namespaces with the imposter-plugin namespace defined in your
composer.json
Learn more on imposter's readme.
Known Issues
Help wanted. Pull requests are welcomed.
- Imposter run twice when
composer installandcomposer update - Traits are not transformed
- Virtual packages are not supported
Frequently Asked Questions
What can I find more information?
Learn more on imposter's readme for more details.
How about not hooking into composer commands?
Use imposter directly.
Do you have real life examples that use this composer plugin?
Here you go:
Add your own here
Which composer versions are supported?
Both v1 and v2.
Will you add support for older PHP versions?
Never! This plugin will only work on actively supported PHP versions.
Don't use it on end of life or security fixes only PHP versions.
It looks awesome. Where can I find some more goodies like this
- Articles on Typist Tech's blog
- Tang Rufus' WordPress plugins on wp.org
- More projects on Typist Tech's GitHub profile
- Stay tuned on Typist Tech's newsletter
- Follow Tang Rufus' Twitter account
- Hire Tang Rufus to build your next awesome site
Where can I give 5-star reviews?
Thanks! Glad you like it. It's important to let me knows somebody is using this project. Please consider:
- tweet something good with mentioning @TangRufus
- ★ star the Github repo
- 👀 watch the Github repo
- write tutorials and blog posts
- hire Typist Tech
Testing
composer test
composer style:check
Alternatives
Here is a list of alternatives that I found. However, none of these satisfied my requirements.
If you know other similar projects, feel free to edit this section!
-
Mozart by Coen Jacobs
- Works with PSR0 and PSR4
- Dependency packages store in a different directory
-
- Prefixes all PHP namespaces in a file/directory to isolate the code bundled in PHARs
Feedback
Please provide feedback! We want to make this project as useful as possible. Please submit an issue and point out what you do and don't like, or fork the project and send pull requests. No issue is too small.
Security Vulnerabilities
If you discover a security vulnerability within this project, please email us at imposter-plugin@typist.tech. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.
Credits
Imposter Plugin is a Typist Tech project and maintained by Tang Rufus, freelance developer for hire.
Full list of contributors can be found here.
License
Imposter Plugin is released under the MIT License.