Share project via Packagist.org about flag-icons

[lipis]

Never used it before so what do I have to do on my side?

Any chance that you can simply use Bower for your front end stuff?!

[rvanlaak]

I've been looking into the 'components' repository over here at Github, which all are available via Packagist.

But, as can be seen in the FontAwesome repo, they still have to update manually. The easiest way is to add a composer.json to your own project and add it to Packagist.org.

Nice article about this can be found here:
http://tech.arendjantetteroo.nl/blog/2013/11/06/switching-from-bower-to-composer-with-components/

[roest01]

+1

[lipis]

hey.. totally forgot about that.. I will do something about it I the coming days..

[lipis]

@rvanlaak Do you mind creating a PR with the valid composer.json for this app and then I will add it to Packagist..

[rvanlaak]

Well, the thing is that adding a composer.json does not directly make the package usable by Symfony. All code will be added to the /vendor folder, where it should be in the /web folder.

A possible solution would be to let composer install assets via an extra plugin. Can you take a look at the following two options?

• https://github.com/atelierspierrot/assets-manager
• http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/package/8429/post/1-Using-Composer-to-Install-JavaScript-CSS-and-Images-Under-the-Web-Document-Directory.html

[ickbinhier]

or via https://github.com/RobLoach/component-installer

"extra": {
    "component": {
        "name": "flag-icon-css",
        "files": [
            "js/datei1.js",
            "css/datei2.css",
            "oder_das_verzeichnis_mit_allem_inhalt/**"
        ]
    }
}

[lipis]

So here you are!! https://packagist.org/packages/components/flag-icon-css

[lipis]

Let me know if it actually worked on your sides :)

[rvanlaak]

Nice! Will try in the near future

[roest01]

Works like a charm - thank you :)

[lipis]

nice.. I thought about it later.. but instead of component/.. I might
rename it to lipis/.. or something, but either case it works :)

[ickbinhier]

you can it rename to 'lipis/'

[roest01]

I would prefer to let it on '/component'
Structure in Symfony2 for libs is

/vendor/
/vendor/js
/vendor/css/
/vendor/packageName/....

bower seems to use the /component/ folder as default - so there of course there are some bower packages in packagist (like your's) and if you use one of it - you will have the component folder next to the vendor folder.

/vendor/
/vendor/css/
/component/flag-icon-css/  

Finaly the nicest solution for me is to have everything in /vendor/ but this seems not to be useful because of different package manager defaults.
The best compromise is to have a vendor for libs and bundles and components for frontent stuff installed with bower.
the badest solution (for me) is, to have a third folder next to them - vendor, component and libs ...

So I suggest to keep the 'component/' folder setting and orientate at the bower defaults.