Add needed libraries to composer.json to support composer workflow

Charchil Khandelwal → made their first commit to this issue’s fork.

Try Fullcalendar Block module.

https://www.drupal.org/docs/contributed-modules/fullcalendar-block/insta... →

Reopening this, as this would be a preferred option. There are valid cases where dependency management should be done on the composer level.
I will try to get this solved...

In my merge request above:
- added composer.libraries.json which can be used by composer to install all external libraries,
- updates fullcalendar_view.libraries.yml to match versions and install locations of all required files,
- added Library Manager service: CDN paths processing, libraries definitions, requirements status etc.

Project using composer can add the following to their composer.json in order to get the libraries installed:

  // Require section:
  "require": {
    "wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin": "^2.1"
  }
  
  // Extra settings:
  "extra": {
    "merge-plugin": {
      "include": [
        "./docroot/modules/contrib/fullcalendar_view/composer.libraries.json"
      ]
    }
  }

The approach requires works on the composer.json file in the root folder of the Drupal installation, which is out of scope of a contribute module.

For those websites in which the site owner does not have the access or knowledge to manage composer.json file in the root folder, this module will stop working for them. For this reason, I won't consider this approach. The idea is to make sure this module working for all existing sites. The convenience comes after that.

I tested both composer and CDN locally and it works.

The approach requires works on the composer.json file in the root folder of the Drupal installation, which is out of scope of a contribute module.

This will only help devs to manage dependencies.

For those websites in which the site owner does not have the access or knowledge to manage composer.json file in the root folder, this module will stop working for them.

The proposed changes support CDN as well. Why not just give it a chance?

The change is big, which requires a lots of testing and review.

This module has been put into maintain mode, which means won't consider any new feature.

To be honest, the change is not so big. Do you need a co-maintainer? I can help. Actually was trying to help here.
Anyway... Thanks for maintaining the module. I will have to use the patch for simplicity.

Re-rolled the patch for v5.1.23. Still works fine and would be a good feature.