Updating all Composer dependencies at once

ctupramod

justshipit You update them with composer update command in your Flarum root installation.

Is this still work? Can I update all the extensions in my forum with that command?

Darkle

ctupramod Yes, in fact I think it's the only way to update lots of dependencies and packages used by flarum and other extensions, for example illuminate and symfony among others.

Look I just did it in one of my installations, imagine updating one by one....

composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Lock file operations: 1 install, 50 updates, 0 removals
  - Upgrading doctrine/cache (1.11.0 => 1.11.3)
  - Upgrading filp/whoops (2.12.1 => 2.13.0)
  - Upgrading illuminate/bus (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/cache (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/collections (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/config (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/console (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/container (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/contracts (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/database (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/events (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/filesystem (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/hashing (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/macroable (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/mail (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/pipeline (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/queue (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/session (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/support (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/translation (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/validation (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading illuminate/view (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1)
  - Upgrading laminas/laminas-diactoros (2.5.1 => 2.6.0)
  - Upgrading league/commonmark (1.6.1 => 1.6.2)
  - Upgrading monolog/monolog (1.26.0 => 1.26.1)
  - Upgrading nesbot/carbon (2.47.0 => 2.48.1)
  - Upgrading s9e/text-formatter (2.9.1 => 2.9.3)
  - Upgrading softcreatr/php-mime-detector (3.2.0 => 3.2.1)
  - Upgrading symfony/config (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/console (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/css-selector (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/event-dispatcher (v5.2.4 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/filesystem (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/finder (v5.2.4 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/http-foundation (v5.2.7 => v5.3.1)
  - Upgrading symfony/mime (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-ctype (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-iconv (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-idn (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php72 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php73 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php80 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0)
  - Locking symfony/polyfill-php81 (v1.23.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/process (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/string (v5.2.6 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/translation (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading symfony/yaml (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0)
  - Upgrading zerosonesfun/direct-links (2.0.4 => 2.1)
Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Package operations: 1 install, 50 updates, 0 removals
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-ctype (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/yaml (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php80 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/translation (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php72 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-idn (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/mime (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/event-dispatcher (v5.2.4 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/string (v5.2.6 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-php73 (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/console (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-php81 (v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/filesystem (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/config (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading s9e/text-formatter (2.9.1 => 2.9.3): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading nesbot/carbon (2.47.0 => 2.48.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading monolog/monolog (1.26.0 => 1.26.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading laminas/laminas-diactoros (2.5.1 => 2.6.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/macroable (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/contracts (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/collections (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/support (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/finder (v5.2.4 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/filesystem (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/container (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/pipeline (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/bus (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/events (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/view (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/http-foundation (v5.2.7 => v5.3.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/translation (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/validation (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/session (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/process (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/database (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/console (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/queue (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/css-selector (v5.2.7 => v5.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading symfony/polyfill-iconv (v1.22.1 => v1.23.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading league/commonmark (1.6.1 => 1.6.2): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/mail (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/hashing (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/config (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading illuminate/cache (v8.41.0 => v8.45.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading filp/whoops (2.12.1 => 2.13.0): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading doctrine/cache (1.11.0 => 1.11.3): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading softcreatr/php-mime-detector (3.2.0 => 3.2.1): Extracting archive
  - Upgrading zerosonesfun/direct-links (2.0.4 => 2.1): Extracting archive

clarkwinkelmann

Please start a new discussions when possible instead of digging years-old discussions. You can link to an existing old discussion and describe the question again.

In the past running composer update was a bit risky if you didn't have a lot of RAM because Composer v1 used a lot of memory and it could take a while. But now with Composer v2 it should be relatively fast. In fact you can see our latest Flarum release blog posts use the composer update command directly without specifying any package, which will update everything.