general

So, you have a bug / feature / curiosity to test out. Hopefully this article will help you quickly get set up to do that!

SeAT packages are developed as a standalone packages. The general idea being that you should be including them in the main seat projects composer.json like here. This of course will install all of the sources in the projects vendor/ directory, though this is not always ideal from a development perspective.

Instead, you can decide to follow the next few stops to create a loadable package directory, that you can commit to your fork. Below is generally how I have developed the packages.

• From the main seat project, create a sub folder called packages. For clarities sake, this folder will be at the same level as say the app folder as well as the composer.json file.
• Next, I like to create the vendors directory for the package I am going to work on, so, create a folder in under packages and call it eveseat. (This is optional. If you skip it, make sure you keep that in mind when setting up the autoloader later).
• Clone your fork under the eveseat folder.
• Next, we move back to the original composer.json file, and add the following for PSR-4 class mapping (for the eveapi package):

"psr-4": {
    "App\\": "app/",
    "Seat\\Eveapi\\": "packages/eveseat/eveapi/src/"
}

• Set up the autoloader by running composer dump-autoload
• You should now have the Seat\Eveapi namespace autoloaded and ready for your testing :D

Take special not of any dependencies that may be missing. You can resolve them by adding them to your composer.json and running composer update.