Composer Slimmer

Plan of Cleanup

• Remove listed folders (so we don't need to search inside them)
• Find all files with patterns e.g. *.{md,txt,rst,dist}
• Make list of files to be removed from found files and listed files
• Remove files
• Report the size of removed files and folders

How to test

Require Plugin in the project and accept plugin:

composer require requirecloud/composer-slimmer

Clean projects vendor and other folders loaded by Composer.

Then test installing with Composer Slimmer plugin (-v flag is for verbose output):

composer install -v

At the end you should see how much space was saved.

Resources

• Composer issue #1750
• Drupal Clean Package Composer Plugin
• The Drupal Vendor Hardening Composer Plugin