Where to find composer's global packages?

Question

For a plugin for Sublime Text I was required to install a composer package globally.

In order to do this I had to run the following command:

composer global require "asm89/twig-lint" "@stable" 

The installation started running and a few seconds later the package was installed. Voila! Well, not really.

Step two was to add some lines to my Sublime Text configuration file:

{     "user": {         "paths": {             "windows": ["C:\\Users\\yourname\\.composer\\vendor\\bin"]         },     } } 

However, the plugin is not working. So I decided to check the path. And it appears there is no .composer directory in my profile directory. It isn't in my php directory either. And I can't find it anywhere.

I would like to know if there's a way to locate this directory and would appreciate any suggestions that can help me get this plugin to work.

Answer 1

You can query Composer to find where it has set the user $COMPOSER_HOME directory.

composer config --list --global 

The [home] ... line refers to the default value of $COMPOSER_HOME.

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The word home can be used as a single parameter as well to show the configuration value.

Example (Windows):

> composer -n config --global home                 C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Composer 

Example (Linux):

$ composer -n config --global home                 /home/<user>/.composer 

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Just as a final confirmation - the 'yourname' part in the configuration, would very likely need to be updated with your own Windows username - composer config will say where it put the files.

Answer 2

You can use

composer global config bin-dir --absolute 

Example

PATH=$(composer global config bin-dir --absolute --quiet):$PATH 

You need --absolute to get value expanded, and --quiet to discard diagnostics of composer global changing working directory. This was tested with composer 1.10.16 and 2.0.1.

See https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/9354#issuecomment-716827067