How to add a package to a custom laravel package? - laravel

Question

I'm building a custom Laravel package which requires the guzzlehttp/guzzle package. Below is my composer.json file:
{
"name": "lomse/awesomePackage",
"description": "this an awesome package",
"type": "library",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Selom",
"email": "awesome#gmail.com"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Lomse\\AwesomePackage\\": "src/"
}
}
}
Below is the content of my AwesomeProvider.php file:
<?php
namespace Lomse\AwesomePackage;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class AwesomeProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
public function boot(){
}
public function register()
{
$this->app->singleton(Awesome::class, function ($app) {
return new Awesome(new Client); //Class 'GuzzleHttp\Client' not found
});
}
}
I keep getting Class 'GuzzleHttp\Client' not found.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

So, this turns out to be quite simple. I highlighted the steps to take in order to solve this. Hope this helps anyone who is having the same issue.
I had to push my code to a repo lomse/awesome-package on Github
then specified preferred-install as dist in the ./lomse/awesome-package/package.json config property`:
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
}
The full code is
{
"name": "lomse/awesome-package",
"description": "this an awesome package",
"type": "library",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Selom",
"email": "awesome#gmail.com"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Lomse\\AwesomePackage\\": "src/"
}
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
}
}
In the root package.json, specify the repository of your package as follow:
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "git#github.com:lomse/awesome-package.git"
}
]
Also add your package repo to the package.json require property as shown below:
"lomse/awesome-package": "dev-master"
From your root directory, run the code below to update your dependencies. This will clone the lomse/awesome-package repo into your vendor folder and install any other dependencies required by your package:
composer update -vvv
-vvv is for debugging purposes