Clearing the composer cache

Issue

While using composer, users may experience memory exhaustion issues and/or problems with requested packages not being found.

Resolution

Composer now has a built in function for clearing the cache which can be run using the following:

~/composer clear-cache

If clearing the cache doesn’t work correctly or you need to manually clear the cache, this can be done by running the following in the root of your project:

rm -rf ~/.composer/cache/*

Cause

Composer’s cache works well in that it does help to speed up your composer workflow, however it does tend to get bloated quite quickly.