Composer.json getting latest package version and

Question

For each new project, I want to:

• Get the latest versions of all packages inside composer.json
• Once I have them I no longer want to get the latest - just the version of the first run.

I know I could manually specify latest versions from packagist.org, but Ideally I'd like this automated.

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Answer 1

1. the latest package:

"require": { "namespace/libname": "@dev" }

2. after install of this package, composer will dump all info (and version) to composer.lock. do not remove this file and do not use composer update. always use composer install because this will force composer to look into composer.lock file for package version