Is there a way to uninstall dev dependencies with composer?

I want to uninstall (and not remove from my composer.json) dev dependencies on a project.

Is there a simple way to do this ?

Solution 1:

Running install or update with --no-dev should now remove dev requirements and their dependencies.

Original answer for historical purposes:

Actually no. You can manually rm -rf them from the vendor dir of course, but composer offers no way to uninstall the dev requirements after you did an install with --dev. It's not a huge use case but could warrant a new command line switch, if you would like to report an issue on github.

Solution 2:

You can use following command after removing the dependencies in composer.json file.

composer update

Solution 3:

Came over this question when looking for the same answer. You can now uninstall installed dev dependencies by simply doing:

composer --no-dev update

It will remove all dev packages that it finds. Though it would interest people landing here the same way I did :)