Developer Installation

With SeAT 4, starting with Docker build 4.1.0, spawning a development environment has been made easier. You can use the same image as of production environment - either you're working on core packages or third party ones.

General

First, start with standard installation to get a working environment.

The official docker-compose wrapper is shipped with a packages directory. It is mounted readonly, and you can store your development sources in it.

To make things easier, we recommend you keep vendor path convention to split your sources across every single package you want to play with.

Overrider

The image has been designed to look for a file called override.json inside packages directory. When it is found, it will be merged together with standard composer.json file from eveseat/seat package.

It's designed to override both autoload and providers. Here is a complete override.json structure:

{
  "autoload": {
    "namespace_to_load\\": "packages/sources_path"
  },
  "providers": [
    "FQCN\\Provider"
  ]
}

An override can have either autoload, providers or even both property. Do not forget to escape \ in order to get a valid json file.

When your container will start, mapping from autoload property in your override.json file will be merged with autoload-dev property from official composer.json.

Tips

1. If you need access the console of any container, access it via docker exec seat-web sh where seat-web is the name of the target container.
2. You can execute artisan commands from outside of docker with docker exec seat-web php artisan <command>

Teach things by example

As an example, let's say I want to make a new feature in web core package, I'll spawn an eveseat directory at root packages directory, followed by a clone from eveseat/web git repository. Last but not least, I'll create an override.json file to inform SeAT there are developer things to load.

1. Create vendor directory into packages directory mkdir packages/eveseat
2. Cloning core web package into packages/eveseat/web directory git clone https://github.com/eveseat/web.git packages/eveseat/web
3. Create an override.json to use custom web sources

cat > packages/override.json << EOL
{
  "autoload": {
    "Seat\\Web\\": "packages/eveseat/web/src/"
  }
}
EOL

Tips

If you're working with Windows, prefer to store your files in wsl layer rather than Windows directory. Both work, however, you'll get better performances!