comments vs composer-patches

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comments		composer-patches
	Project
1	Mentions	10
721	Stars	1,475
1.7%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.6
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

comments

Posts with mentions or reviews of comments. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-11.

Modifying a Package Controller
2 projects | /r/laravel | 11 Mar 2021

I'm using Comments package from Laravelista (https://github.com/laravelista/comments)

composer-patches

Posts with mentions or reviews of composer-patches. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-28.

Mechanics of (and ethics of) upgrading a PHP Joomla plugin
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 22 May 2023

if you're using composer with joomla, and the plugin is installed via composer, you can commission someone to make the necessary changes, create a git diff patch that encapsulates the changes, then leverage cweagans/composer-patches to make it work. if/when new changes are necessary, they can build a new patch.
Laravel considered harmful
13 projects | /r/PHP | 28 Apr 2023

I've had problems with libraries using final having an API that isn't customizable enough in a particular way I need because I'm innovating in some way they could never have considered in the past, so my choice ends up either needing to fork the library or monkey patch it with https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches so I can get rid of final so I can keep using it. They wouldn't accept a change in API or behaviour because it would break things for other users, etc.
Thoughts on running patches in production?
2 projects | /r/drupal | 27 Mar 2023

There are cool tools to integrate patches from drupal.org (or your own custom patches) into your composer managed drupal website. For example (not drupal specific but works well with drupal+composer): https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
Is there a way to apply a patch to an AUR package on the fly, without editing the PKGBUILD?
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 7 Mar 2023

If the PR get's merged, I want `yay` or `pacman` to skip the patch. Ideally it would be declared in a pacman.patches file or similar to what https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches provides for composer PHP package managment.
PSA for macOS users with composer workflows.
1 project | /r/drupal | 19 Jan 2023

This has been an issue for a while, and is outlined here: - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/172#issuecomment-587147692 - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/326
Installing patches in Drupal 8
1 project | dev.to | 15 Mar 2022

Install a package that allows the composer to work with patches:
Procedure for critical dependency lagging behind?
2 projects | /r/laravel | 12 Feb 2022
Best way to handle a bug in a composer package?
1 project | /r/PHP | 31 Aug 2021

And if for some reason you do not want to make a fork, you can also create a composer patch with the help of https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
Modifying a Package Controller
2 projects | /r/laravel | 11 Mar 2021

https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches - this lets you patch packages when they are pulled in by Composer. I have used it in the past to get minor bugfixes into a project ASAP without having to wait for upstream or forking the entire package.
troubles with dd or What are best practices for patching Symphony?
1 project | /r/laravel | 19 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing comments and composer-patches you can also consider the following projects:

laravel-package-tools - Tools for creating Laravel packages

Repman - Repman - PHP Repository Manager: packagist proxy and host for private packages

jigsaw - Simple static sites with Laravel’s Blade.

Packagist - Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -

artisan-view - 👀 Manage your views in Laravel projects through artisan

ComposerRequireChecker - A CLI tool to check whether a specific composer package uses imported symbols that aren't part of its direct composer dependencies

laravel-messenger - Simple user messaging package for Laravel

WordPress Packagist - WordPress Packagist — manage your plugins with Composer

laravel-optimus - Transform your internal id's to obfuscated integers based on Knuth's integer hash. Laravel wrapper for the Optimus Library by Jens Segers with multiple connections support.

composer-diff - Compares composer.lock changes and generates Markdown report so you can use it in PR description.

tree-sitter-comment - Tree-sitter grammar for comment tags like TODO, FIXME(user).

Composer Merge Plugin - Merge one or more additional composer.json files at Composer runtime