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Features at a glance

Feature Legacy Command Pipeline Command
Creates a manifest of your software components and dependencies manifest:build make build 1
Generates a stub for your manifest application manifest:stub make stub
Generates a final BOX configuration file make configure
Compiles an application into a PHAR make compile 2
Adds custom action easily make MyCustomStage 3

Everything you would expect but not have yet with PHARs

  • Set up in less than 5 minutes

    Install box-manifestwith composer and get up and running in minutes

    Getting started

  • Capabilities

    Provides advanced, inventory software capabilities to PHARs

    Pipeline reference

  • Zero configuration by default

    As BOX, no configuration required to start

    Customization

  • Inspect

    Inspect manifests contents of a PHAR at runtime.

    Inspect

  • Open Source, MIT

    BOX Manifest is licensed under MIT and available on GitHub

    License

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Installation

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Make your first manifests and stub

Terminal
 

  1. You can create multiple manifest on same pipeline command, while legacy command allowed only once at a time. ↩

  2. Easy launcher of BOX project binary command (vendor/bin/box) ↩

  3. MyCustomStage is a custom class that should implement the Bartlett\BoxManifest\Pipeline\StageInterface contract and must be loadable, either by your autoloader or with bootstrap helper feature (see --bootstrap|-b option). ↩