> Don't store your vendor directory in Git! Completely unnecessary and waste of 47MB.
I find that it simplifies versioning as well as making it so you don't have to download individual dependencies. What is your suggestion otherwise?
I find that it simplifies versioning as well as making it so you don't have to download individual dependencies. What is your suggestion otherwise?
Committing dependencies is a solid decision to avoid taking a dependency on a bunch of third parties.
I know what you are meant to do is check in your composer.json and composer.lock then do a composer install on the server.
But then you have a external dependency on your install process on live servers, which is a terrible idea. To got around this, I've seen companies say "we have our own package mirror". Or you could just check in the vendor folder?
Another reason I do it: My software package is used by people who aren't PHP programmers and I want them to be able to just grab the files and go with no fuss.
I do appreciate having the vendor folder in git takes space and is a pain ... but I think the trade off is worth it.