Laravel-ide-helper: Composer memory exhausted when installing this package

[tanthammar]

If I have this package installed I am unable to perform composer require commands.
composer update works fine.
If I remove the package I have no issues.

"barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "^2.6",
Laravel Framework 7.12.0
"php": "^7.4.4",

Error:

./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)         
PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52

[adrianschubek]

I had a similar issue. Deleting the vendor folder and installing again fixed it for me.

[tanthammar]

Thank you for the suggestion. Tried it, but it did not help :)

[mfn]

I can't see how this is an issue with the package; if, it's a composer problem no?

Try the latest beta and see if it works => composer self-update --snapshot

I had similar memory issues with https://github.com/rebing/graphql-laravel and just changing this fixed the build on travis

[mash1t]

You could also use an env var for ignoring this issue once
COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

[tanthammar]

I think I was unclear when specifying my issue.
I have no problem installing this package.
But after it is installed I cannot install any other package without getting this error.
If I remove this package, I can install other packages without issues.

[tanthammar]

I can't see how this is an issue with the package; if, it's a composer problem no?

Try the latest beta and see if it works => composer self-update --snapshot

I had similar memory issues with https://github.com/rebing/graphql-laravel and just changing this fixed the build on travis

Tried this but I get a lot of symfony/thanks errors...

[squatto]

Since most people will scroll down to the bottom for the answer, I'll point you back up to this comment ⬆️

You could also use an env var for ignoring this issue once
COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Nearly every time you hit a memory limit with composer, you can get around it by prefixing the command with COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1. You can find more information about this solution here: https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors

[Sylk]

Thanks for the answers @squatto and @mash1t.