composer-normalize VS local-php-security-checker

Composer-Normalize: Your Organization Sidekick! Let's talk about keeping things neat and tidy! Enter Composer-Normalize. This nifty tool ensures your composer.json file stays impeccably organized and sorted. No more chaotic dependency lists - it's all about that clean, structured vibe! 🌐📑 More info here: https://github.com/ergebnis/composer-normalize

I guess composer normalize is doing those checks since it is validating the composer.json against it's official schema. More at https://github.com/ergebnis/composer-normalize

Use composer-normalize as a formatter

composer-normalize: Provides a composer plugin for normalizing composer.json.

The README itself shows that it’s being used to keep track of Chinese Starbucks stores, download JSON schema updates periodically and even by the Node project itself to keep the license file up to date.

test -d local-php-security-checker || curl -L https://github.com/fabpot/local-php-security-checker/releases/download/v1.2.0/local-php-security-checker_1.2.0_linux_amd64 --output local-php-security-checker chmod +x local-php-security-checker ./local-php-security-checker

The best alternative to use now is to download a local-security-checker binary (https://github.com/fabpot/local-php-security-checker/releases), saving it in the bin folder, and running that binary (via bin/local-php-security-checker).

Local PHP Security Checker: PHP security vulnerabilities checker

It looks like they utilize this repo for advisories: https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/ -- via https://symfony.com/blog/the-php-security-checker-as-a-docker-image

https://github.com/fabpot/local-php-security-checker

I agree, composer is not perfect, but before it was worse.