janpecha/composer-cleaner

Victor The Cleaner: removes unnecessary files from vendor directory.

v1.1.0 2026-01-09 08:42 UTC

Requires

• php: 7.4 - 8.5
• composer-plugin-api: ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• composer/composer: ^2.0
• nette/tester: ^2.4

BSD-3-Clause

• David Grudl

• composer

README

This tool removes unnecessary files and directories from Composer vendor directory.

Forked from originally dg/composer-cleaner.

Installation

composer require janpecha/composer-cleaner

Then simply use composer update.

Configuration

You can also specify paths to be ignored (ie they will not be deleted) via composer.json:

{
	"extra": {
		"cleaner-ignore": {
			"slevomat/eet-client": [  // name of package
				"wsdl*"               // files or subdirectories, you can use wildcards `*` and `?`
			],

			"mpdf/mpdf": true         // ignores whole package
		}
	}
}