Managing Laravel Composer Dependencies and SSH Artisan Commands

Production Composer Optimization

Always run Composer in production mode to bypass developer dependencies and build optimized class maps:

composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Essential Artisan Commands

• php artisan migrate --force: Executes database migrations safely in production.
• php artisan config:cache: Compiles configuration into a cached file.
• php artisan route:cache: Pre-compiles all registered routes.
• php artisan view:cache: Compiles Blade templates for instant rendering.
• php artisan optimize:clear: Flushes all configuration, route, and compiled caches.

Resolving Memory Exhaustion

If Composer runs out of memory on large dependency trees, run with unbounded memory: php -d memory_limit=-1 $(which composer) install