[laravel] How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

What is the correct way to remove a package from Laravel using composer? So far I've tried:

1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "require" section)
2. Remove any Class Aliases from app.php
3. Remove any references to the package from my code :-)
4. Run composer update
5. Run composer dump-autoload

None of these options are working! What am I missing?

Simpliest and Easiest way

Syntax:

composer remove <package>

Example:

composer remove laravel/tinker

On laravel 8.* I following steps work for me :

1. Run command composer remove package-name on terminal

2. Remove Provider and aliases from Config/app.php

3. Remove related file from Config folder.

Remove from your code where you used .

Remove the package with

composer remove vendorname/packagename

you can check remove package from composer.json - docs

Or you can remove the package name from composer.json file and run composer update from within your project directory. I hope it helps.

you can remove any package just by typing follwing command in terminal, and just remove the providers and alias you provided at the time of installing the package, if any and update the composer,

composer remove vendor/your_package_name
composer update

You can remove any package by typing following command in terminal, and just remove the providers and alias you provided at the time of installing the package and update the composer

composer remove <package_name>
composer update

You can do any one of the below two methods:

1. Running the below command (most recommended way to remove your package without updating your other packages)

   $ composer remove vendor/package

2. Go to your composer.json file and then run command like below it will remove your package (but it will also update your other packages)

   $ composer update

In case the given answers still don't help you remove that, try this:

• Manually delete the line in require from composer.json

• Run composer update

To remove a package using composer command

composer remove <package>

To install a package using composer command

composer require <package>

To install all packages which are mentioned in composer.json

composer install

To update packages

composer update

I used these for Laravel project

Normally composer remove used like this is enough:

$ composer remove vendor/package

but if composer package is removed and config cache is not cleaned you cannot clean it, when you try like so

php artisan config:clear

you can get an error In ProviderRepository.php line 208:

Class 'Laracasts\Flash\FlashServiceProvider' not found

this is a dead end, unless you go deleting files

$rm bootstrap/cache/config.php

And this is Laravel 5.6 I'm talking about, not some kind of very old stuff.

It happens usually on automated deployment, when you copy files of a new release on top of old cache. Even if you cleared cache before copying. You end up with old cache and a new composer.json.

1. Remove package folder from vendor folder (Manual delete)
2. remove it from 'composer.json' & 'composer.lock' files
3. remove it from 'config/app.php' & 'bootstrap/cache/config.php' files
4. composer remove package-name
5. php artisan cache:clear & php artisan config:clear

**

use "composer remove vendor/package"

** This is Example: Install / Add Pakage

composer require firebear/importexportfree

Uninsall / Remove

composer remove firebear/importexportfree

Finaly after removing:

php -f bin/magento setup:upgrade

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy –f

php bin/magento indexer:reindex 

php -f bin/magento cache:clean

If you are still getting the error after you have done with all above steps, go to your projects bootstrap->cache->config.php remove the provider & aliases entries from the cached array manually.

Running the following command

composer remove Vendor/Package Name

That's all. No need composer update. Vendor/Package Name is just directory as installed before

We have come with a great solution. This solution is practically done in Laravel 6. If you want to remove any package from your Laravel Project then you can easily remove the package by following below steps:

Step 1: You must know the package name which you want to remove. If you don't know complete package name then you can open your project folder and go to composer.json file and check name in require an array

"require": {
        "php": "^7.2",
        "fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
        "laravel/framework": "^6.2",
        "laravel/passport": "^8.3",
        "laravel/tinker": "^2.0"
    },

Suppose, here I am going to remove "fideloper/proxy" package.

Step 2: Open command prompt with your project root folder directory Step 3: First of all clear all cache by following commands. Run commands one by one.

php artisan cache:clear  
php artisan config:clear 

Step 4: Now write the following command to remove the package. Here you need to change your package name instead of my example package.

composer remove fideloper/proxy

Now, wait for a few seconds your package is removing.

There are quite a few steps here:

1. Go to composer.json and look for the package and how it is written over there.

• for example

{ "require": { "twig/twig": "^3.0" } }

I wish to remove twig 3.0

2. Now open cmd and run composer remove vendor/your_package_name as composer remove twig/twig this will remove the package.

3. As a final step run composer update this will surely give you a massage of nothing to install or update but this is important in case your packages have inter-dependencies.

Got it working... The steps to remove a package from Laravel are:

1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "require" section)
2. Remove Service Provider from config/app.php (reference in "providers" array)
3. Remove any Class Aliases from config/app.php
4. Remove any references to the package from your code :-)
5. Run composer update vendor/package-name. This will remove the package folder from the vendor folder and will rebuild the composer autoloading map.
6. Manually delete the published files (read the comment by zwacky)

It will remove the package folder from Vendor folder

Before removing a package from composer.json declaration, please remove cache

php artisan cache:clear  
php artisan config:clear 

If you forget to remove cache and you get class not found error then please reinstall the package and clear cache and remove again.