Plotly.js: Official version of plotly.js via Packagist (Composer - PHP)

[marclaporte]

Packagist is the main Composer repository. It aggregates public PHP packages installable with Composer:
https://getcomposer.org/
https://packagist.org/

It makes it easier to install and to keep up to date. If a developer is picking a library (vs another), package management is a criteria. More inclusions in apps means the library is used more, and can lead to more contributions (bug reports of course, but also hopefully patches and new features)

I know plotly.js is not in PHP, but it's common to have packages that have JavaScript but no PHP. This represents millions of downloads. Some notable ones:
https://packagist.org/packages/twbs/bootstrap
https://packagist.org/packages/components/jquery
https://packagist.org/packages/components/jqueryui
https://packagist.org/packages/blueimp/jquery-file-upload
https://packagist.org/packages/ckeditor/ckeditor
https://packagist.org/packages/mbostock/d3
https://packagist.org/packages/tinymce/tinymce
https://packagist.org/packages/moment/moment

Tiki gets dozens of them:
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/composer.json

Thanks!

[etpinard]

Thanks for the headsup.

If you can get 50 :+1: s, we'll spend the time to do this.

[fabiomontefuscolo]

Hello @etpinard

I want to do a pull request with composer.json, but after read PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.MD, I think it is better talk to you first.

I forked your project and added the file needed by packagist. The URL is https://github.com/fabiomontefuscolo/plotly.js/blob/master/composer.json.

If you accept, there are some other steps to follow:

1. Create an account in packagist.org
2. Submit your package (just ctrl+c/ctrl+v repository url)
3. Connect github webhook to packagist

Unfortunately, I can't do these steps for you, but I think it takes no more than 10 minutes to setup.

The package name in composer.json is plotly/plotly.js. This means your account name in packagist should be plotly. If you want other account name, you have to change the part before slash, like *othername/plotly.js".

Hope this help,

[etpinard]

@fabiomontefuscolo Thanks for looking into this!

@jackparmer, @chriddyp or @bpostlethwaite would you mind creating a plotly packagist account?

[chriddyp]

Sure! It looks like composer.json needs to be part of the repository before we can submit it though:

[etpinard]

Thanks @chriddyp !!

@fabiomontefuscolo PR away :rocket:

[etpinard]

@chriddyp that composer.json file is now on master :tada:

[chriddyp]

🎉

[chriddyp]

https://packagist.org/packages/plotly/plotly.js