Git Package Manager

A PHP Command Line tool that makes it easy to download dependencies from GitHub.

Use-Case

When building a site in PHP, the two main options to downloading and installing front-end frameworks is to either use NPM/Yarn/Bower (Which require Node), or take the source of the framework and include it in the project manually (and committing that code to your repo). The goal with this tool is to eliminate the need for Node as well as having to commit the framework's code to your project's repo.

Installation

To a package (local)

composer require-dev itsahappymedium/gpm
./vendor/bin/gpm help

To your system (global)

composer global require itsahappymedium/gpm
gpm help

Usage

GPM will read a list of dependencies from a gpm.json file that is structured like so:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "cowboy/jquery-throttle-debounce": "1.1",
    "derek-watson/jsuri": "1.3.1",
    "kazzkiq/balloon.css": "1.0.0",
    "kraaden/autocomplete": "#c43f2a7",
    "leongersen/nouislider": "14.7.0",
    "patrickkunka/easydropdown": "4.2.0",
    "zenorocha/clipboard.js": "2.0.8"
  }
}

Package names are <github_username>/<repo_name>. So if you wanted to install https://github.com/kraaden/autocomplete, the package name would be kraaden/autocomplete.

Package versions can be a tag name, dev-<branch>, #<commit_sha>, or a URL (Zip files will be extracted). If a package version isn't found using the version/tag specified, it will try again with a v prepended (For example, if 1.3.1 doesn't exist, it will also try v1.3.1).

gpm install [--save/-s] [--path/-p <path>] [--install-path/-i <path>] [package]

If the package argument is passed, it will simply download and extract that package (also saving it to gpm.json if the --save or -s option is set), otherwise if no arguments are passed, all packages currently defined in gpm.json will be downloaded and extracted.

Set the --path or -p option to define a path to where the gpm.json file is located (Defaults to the current directory).

Set the --install-path or -i option to define a path to download and extract packages to (Defaults to gpm_modules in the current directory).

Set the --ignore-errors or -c option to ignore any errors that occur and continues with installing the rest of the packages.

Set the --ext or -e option to define file extensions to extract from archives otherwise all files will be extracted (Separate multiple extensions with a comma).

gpm uninstall [--save/-s] [--path/-p <path>] [--install-path/-i <path>] <package>

Deletes a package from the gpm_modules directory (or whatever directory the --install-path or -i option is set to) (also removing it from gpm.json if the --save or -s option is set).

gpm versions <package>

Lists the versions available for the package passed to the package argument.

gpm init [--path/-p <path>]

Generates a gpm.json file in the current directory (or whatever directory the --path or -p option is set to).

gpm help

Displays information on how to use GPM.

Defining Settings with JSON

You can set the install-path and/or ext options by defining them in your JSON file like so:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "kazzkiq/balloon.css": "1.0.0",
    "kraaden/autocomplete": "#c43f2a7"
  },
  "settings": {
    "gpm": {
      "ext": ["js", "css", "scss"],
      "install-path": "frontend_dependencies"
    }
  }
}

Both install-path and ext settings accept a string or an array of strings. The install-path defined here is relative to the JSON file.

Related

• FEC - A PHP Command Line tool that makes it easy to compile, concat, and minify front-end Javascript and CSS/SCSS dependencies.

License

MIT. See the license.md file for more info.