How to remove unused dependencies from composer

Question

I installed a package with composer  and it installed many other packages as dependencies   Now I uninstalled the main package with composer remove packageauthor packagename  but all the old dependencies were not removed  I expected composer to clean up and only keep packages that are required according to composer json and their dependencies   How can I force composer to clean up and remove all unused packages

User · Accepted Answer

The right way to do this is   composer remove jenssegers mongodb --update-with-dependencies   I must admit the flag here is not quite obvious as to what it will do   Update  composer remove jenssegers mongodb   As of v1 0 0-beta2 --update-with-dependencies is the default and is no longer required

User · Answer

In fact  it is very easy   composer update   will do all this for you  but it will also update the other packages   To remove a package without updating the others  specifiy that package in the command  for instance   composer update monolog monolog   will remove the monolog monolog package   Nevertheless  there may remain some empty folders or files that cannot be removed automatically  and that have to be removed manually

User · Answer

Just run composer install - it will make your vendor directory reflect dependencies in composer lock file    In other words - it will delete any vendor which is missing in composer lock   Please update the composer itself before running this

User · Answer

following commands will do the same perfectly  rm -rf vendor  composer install

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