Using the IDE helper in a composer package

[offroff]

I'd like to use the IDE helper when working with composer packages. Did anyone do that?

I guess I need to install artisan, is that the right way?

[barryvdh]

What do you want exactly? WHy?

[offroff]

I'm developing a laravel 5 application and think your package helps a lot. Then I started to extract some of the code into packages and figured I should work with the packages in isolation but then I realized I don't have access to the ide helper anymore.. I found it pretty difficult to work with packages for other reasons as well and now I'm working directly in the /vendor folder instead and that helps me with this issue (and some other issues). Still I feel like I'm doing something wrong but at least I don't have this specific problem anymore. So this issue can be closed but if you or someone else has some hints please share :)

[mfn]

@offroff I believe you can. I just recently added tests to this repository, which demonstrates that this package can be run without the full frame as a package (by using https://github.com/orchestral/testbench ), so I don't see why this wouldn't work in your package, when you:

• use https://github.com/orchestral/testbench
• make ide-helper a dev dependency
• and use it there

And may need to some more setup / bootstrapping, but should be doable.

Mildly related, some time I ago I opened #756 because I use this package also without a full-framework and had to jump through some hoops, which I outlined. Maybe those things apply, maybe they don't.