A Composer tool to show unused Composer dependencies by scanning your code.
Created by Andreas Frömer and contributors, logo by Caneco.
⚠️ If you want to use this tool as composer-plugin head over to composer-unused-plugin.
When working in a big repository, you sometimes lose track of your required Composer packages. There may be so many packages you can't be sure if they are actually used or not.
Unfortunately, the composer why
command only gives you the information about why
a package is installed in dependency to another package.
How do we check whether the provided symbols of a package are used in our code?
composer unused
to the rescue!
.phar
archive or use PHIVE to install it locally.
Install via phive
or grab the latest composer-unused.phar
from the latest release:
phive install composer-unused
curl -OL https://github.com/composer-unused/composer-unused/releases/latest/download/composer-unused.phar
You can also install composer-unused
as a local development dependency:
composer require --dev icanhazstring/composer-unused
Depending on the kind of your installation the command might differ.
Note: Packages must be installed via composer install
or composer update
prior to running composer-unused
.
The phar
archive can be run directly in you project:
php composer-unused.phar
Having composer-unused
as a local dependency you can run it using the shipped binary:
vendor/bin/composer-unused
Sometimes you don't want to scan a certain directory or ignore a Composer package while scanning.
In these cases, you can provide the --excludeDir
or the --excludePackage
option.
These options accept multiple values as shown next:
php composer-unused.phar --excludeDir=config --excludePackage=symfony/console
php composer-unused.phar \
--excludeDir=bin \
--excludeDir=config \
--excludePackage=symfony/assets \
--excludePackage=symfony/console
Make sure the package is named exactly as in your
composer.json
You are also able to exclude packages by configuration. For this, you need to provide the extra
directive in your composer.json
file.
{
"extra": {
"unused": [
"package/a",
"package/b"
]
}
}
Please have a look at CHANGELOG.md
.
Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING.md
.
Please have a look at CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
.
This package is licensed under the MIT License.