Add a tab/place for easy-installing the most popular laravel composer packages about laravel-create HOT 4 CLOSED

Definitely go for JSON manipulation, I was thinking since this package is used for generating NEW projects, we can assume latest stable version for all composer packages (let composer decide compatibility among deps).

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Great idea!
It would be really neat to get some help/suggestions for dependencies.
There is a similar idea listed here: https://trello.com/c/fsCCPlv8 (for custom commands)

A general approach would be to create a JSON/dependency-Pipe that manages composer.json / package.json or any JSON file basically. Will have to tinker with that.

I think this will be pushed back to next version though since its not critical. Keeping this suggestion in Trello and closing this issue for now, to keep it somewhat tidy here. But please feel free to continue discussion :)

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Here are some more suggestions:

barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
laravel/tinker
laravel/telescope
laravel/socialite
laravel/passport
laravel/dusk
laravel/scout
jenssegers/agent
rickselby/laravel-gate-cache

Note that laravel/envoy must be installed globally, so it's not as simple as just putting it inside composer.json, though taking into account only the packages that are easily writable to composer.json, it shouldn't be that big of a feature right?

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JSON manipulation approach

Setting up a ComposerPipe is easy. By default it could have the top 100 packages selectable in a settings tab with sensible defaults. Though not sure how it will keep dependency versions compatible and up to date. Example (see the numbers!):

        "beyondcode/laravel-dump-server": "^1.0",
        "filp/whoops": "^2.0",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
        "nunomaduro/collision": "^3.0",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.5"

Actually calling composer executable

The alternative, running exec('composer require user/package') or using system() or similar can be really painful in my experience, a rabbit hole me myself wont enter right now :) But I would be happy to merge PRs.

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