Support for composer-asset-plugin

Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. Dependencies are defined in a composer.json file, very similar to the package.json file from NPM. Composer is awesome because it’s solving the problem of installing 3rd party libraries.

But it is only handling PHP packages from packagist.org. Specially in a web environment many times you need some CSS and JavaScript packages as well. For that use case there is the composer-asset-plugin now. With that plugin you can reference NPM packages and bower packages in your composer.json. That way you have ALL your dependencies in 1 single file. If installed correctly you can reference an NPM packages just like this:

{
    "require": {
        "npm-asset/bootstrap": "dev-master"
    }
}

And a bower package like this:

{
    "require": {
        "bower-asset/bootstrap": "dev-master"
    }
}

Up to now this dependencies have been marked as UNKNOWN from VersionEye, because VersionEye was looking for a PHP package with the name “bower-asset/bootstrap”. But now the composer-asset-plugin is supported and these dependencies are handled correctly.

Please try it out your self and give feedback.