Composer dependency problem

[inacho]

I can't execute composer update or composer install because Yii2 depends on "bower-asset/jquery", which not longer exists (https://github.com/bower-asset/jquery)

Any solution?
Thanks

Wokraround: #13247 (comment)

[nadar]

fxpio/composer-asset-plugin#268

After removing my Composer caches, I confirm that the problem comes from Packagist. Composer downloads a list of repository providers in COMPOSER_HOME/repo/https---packagist.org/provider-bower-asset$jquery.json (for jquery).

The problem comes with the virtual packages referenced by many packages with provide and replace section.

[http403]

bower-asset is totally down, no repo inside

[SilverFire]

For those who faced this problem - try https://asset-packagist.org as an alternative.

After adding asset-packagist to your composer.json, as it is described on the site do the following:

1. Run composer install (or composer update)
2. Considering that asset-packagist installs assets in a different directory, add the following lines to your application config (usually called as web.php)

$config = [
        'aliases' => [
            '@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
            '@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
        ],
    ];

See https://asset-packagist.org/site/about to know more

[klimov-paul]

Relates fxpio/composer-asset-plugin#268

[mrserg161]

@SilverFire

composer install is ok, but yii not found jquery

[alxark]

If your facing this problem:

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery (1.12.4)
    Downloading: Failed
    Failed to download bower-asset/jquery from dist: The "https://api.github.com/repos/bower-asset/jquery/zipball/a76fe112f860279382d9f6336fe040fd8f8aa13d" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)
    Now trying to download from source
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery (1.12.4)
    Cloning a76fe112f860279382d9f6336fe040fd8f8aa13d


  [RuntimeException]
  Failed to clone https://github.com/bower-asset/jquery.git via https, ssh, git protocols, aborting.
  - https://github.com/bower-asset/jquery.git
    Cloning into '/private/var/www/backend/app/vendor/bower-asset/jquery'...
    remote: Repository not found.
    fatal:***@github.com/bower-asset/jquery.git/' not found
  - git@github.com:bower-asset/jquery.git
    Cloning into '/private/var/www/backend/app/vendor/bower-asset/jquery'...
    ERROR: Repository not found.
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
  - git://github.com/bower-asset/jquery.git
    Cloning into '/private/var/www/backend/app/vendor/bower-asset/jquery'...
    fatal: remote error:
      Repository not found.

to fix this situation you can add this to your composer.json

"repositories": [
       {
           "type": "composer",
           "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
       }
   ],

[bizley]

asset-packagist does not respect "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower" setting probably. Now @bower alias points to vendor/bower and asset-packagist puts bower packages in bower-asset folder.

[http403]

@mrserg161 paste the following content to config/web.php

$config = [
        ...
        'aliases' => [
            '@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
            '@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
        ],
        ...
    ];

[SilverFire]

@bizley that's right.

@hartmantam thank you for a right snippet. I've added it to my comment to make the solution complete.

[SilverFire]

Related: composer/packagist#756

[lan143]

@hartmantam after composer install we have 2 bower folders. Is change alias, another packages not found

[SilverFire]

@lan143 forget about vendor/bower and vendor/npm dirs

[lan143]

@SilverFire Im remove vendor folder before composer install.

[cebe]

here is a simple workaround that does not include asset-packagist: fxpio/composer-asset-plugin#268 (comment)

[Yepitis]

https://asset-packagist.org/site/about look this.

[http403]

@lan143 I didn't encountor this issue tho... and i don't have a bower folder in the vendor. but you can try to move jquery and yii2-pjax in bower to bower-asset, it may solve the problem

[SilverFire]

fxpio/composer-asset-plugin#268 (comment)

[Charius]

well https://github.com/bower-asset/jquery.inputmask.git is 404 now

[nkostadinov]

I still have problem updating via composer

 - Installing bower-asset/jquery.inputmask (3.3.3)
    Downloading: Failed
    Failed to download bower-asset/jquery.inputmask from dist: The "https://api.github.com/repos/bower-asset/jquery.inputmask/zipball/a92cb06b4fe5788ebe7e45e56842c6141632b3ab" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)

I cannot find a working solution to this problem though the issue is closed

[Charius]

use asset-packagist.org instead composer-asset-plugin

[nkostadinov]

@Charius I can switch to asset-packagist, but is this the final solution ? I thought it was just a temporary workaround.

[Charius]

@nkostadinov I guess it's not final solution, otherwise all the issues related with this in other projects are closed, so, there are other options, like https://packagist.org/packages/cebe/assetfree-yii2

[SilverFire]

Asset-packagist is not a temporary solution. It's a full alternative to fxp/composer-asset-plugin, you are free to choose. We are going to add a guide article about it soon: #13064

[rob006]

It's a full alternative to fxp/composer-asset-plugin

No, it's not. It still doesn't have some features (and never will) that composer-asset-plugin have: #8688 (comment)

[nkostadinov]

Well it is not compliant with the current solution. I have my composer packages with their bower dependencies and they do not work. It keeps installing them in vendor/bower. So now I have 60% installed in vendor/bower-asset and other 40% installed in vendor/bower. Does anyone know a fix for this ?

[SilverFire]

@rob006 it's a full alternative for a general usage scenario. You are right, it does not cover some special cases described via the link you've provided.

Does anyone know a fix for this ?

Most probably https://asset-packagist.org does not know some of your required bower packages.

1. Remove fxp/composer-asset-plugin from your global composer
2. Run composer update in your project
3. Most probably you will see an error that some of your requirements can not be satisfied.
4. Copy the missing bower-asset/package name and submit it to https://asset-packagist.org
5. Run composer update again. Repeat 3-5 until all your bower-requirements are submitted

We've already imported top-1500 of npm and bower packages, but we are considering about importing more.

[nkostadinov]

Aha, I didn't know I have to SUBMIT the packages - that's important information. I thought that that asset-packagist.org did that automatically upon request from composer so you don't have to manually enter each.