Common Composer Commands

These commands can be used globally or locally. To use locally just remove the global keyword. To learn more about these commands and others that are not listed here go to the composer documentation.


To show installed packages:

composer global show

To show primary packages without dependencies:

composer global show --self

To show all packages installed regardless of dependencies:

composer global show --all

To show all outdated packages:

composer global outdated

To upgrade packages:

composer global upgrade

To install packages

composer global require "vendor/package"

To remove packages:

composer global remove "vendor/package"
composer global remove "vendor/*"

To update composer:

composer global self-update