Verbose Flag
composer update -vvv
composer update [package name] -vvv
Update Autoloaded class map
This is helpful if you've changed the file structure.
I beleive this also occurs when running composer update
composer self-update
Update Composer Autoloader
This is helpful if class names were changed etc.
It does run as part of composer update as well as composer install,
but you may not want to do those things
composer dump-autoload
Clear Composer Cache
This is useful for a number of reasons, [reasons here... hehe]
composer clearcache or composer clear-cache
Re Install Packages
If a change is made to the composer.json it might be small, but it likely will change the composer.lock.
rm -rf ./vendor/* && composer install
composer install --prefer-source
composer update
composer update [package name]
Update specific Package(s)
composer update [package name]
composer update [package name 1] [package name 2]
Update the lockfile only
If there are changes on the composer.json, but you don't want to update the vendor package version(s)
composer update --lock
Troubleshooting
composer diagnose Potentially helpful when trying to resolve an error
I beleive these work for both composer update and composer install
--prefer-source- Install packages from source when available--prefer-dist- Install packages from dist when available--ignore-platform-reqs- ignore php, hhvm, lib-* and ext-* requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not fulfill these. See also the platform config option.--dry-run- Simulate the command without actually doing anything.--dev- Install packages listed in require-dev (this is the default behavior).--no-dev- Skip installing packages listed in require-dev. The autoloader generation skips the autoload-dev rules.--no-autoloader- Skips autoloader generation.--no-scripts- Skips execution of scripts defined in composer.json.--no-plugins- Disables plugins.--no-progress- Removes the progress display that can mess with some terminals or scripts which don't handle backspace characters.--optimize-autoloaderor-o- Convert PSR-0/4 autoloading to classmap to get a faster autoloader. This is recommended especially for production, but can take a bit of time to run so it is currently not done by default.--lock- Only updates the lock file hash to suppress warning about the lock file being out of date.--with-dependencies- Add also all dependencies of whitelisted packages to the whitelist.--prefer-stable- Prefer stable versions of dependencies.--prefer-lowest- Prefer lowest versions of dependencies. Useful for testing minimal versions of requirements, generally used with --prefer-stable.