Use composer scripts to automate schema update

I don’t think it is possible to assume Drush exists, or even that every site would want this. I am voting “no” for this feature in this form.

Every site’s Composer configuration is customized so anyone is free to add this if they wish.

My original post contained an example script, as stated. It was not intended to be included as-is. Many sites do not use or need drush.

The request is to automate a manually step which helps improve the developer experience.

The current experience:
- composer update
- Login to site
- Visit '/admin/reports'
- Click "status report"
- Scroll down to check for Database updates
- If exists, click `update`

A suggested solution is to use composer's command event scripts.

Suggested experience:
- composer update

There is a major initiative to automate updates → .

I suggest we close this as a duplicate.

As @cilefen says there is no one size fits all here; you are free to add such a command to your composer.json but this will not work for everyone in all environments. We have a full set of documentation on updating Drupal as there are many options: https://www.drupal.org/docs/updating-drupal → - please refer to this to figure out which is the best way for your setup.

The Automatic Updates initiative hopes to eventually solve this in a better way for some users, closing as duplicate.