How to disable process timeout for Composer scripts

#howto #webdev #composer #bash

If you have composer.json file in your project, then you might have some custom script in the scripts section that you want to execute via composer {script-name} command.
For example, in your Laravel project you have phpunit and want to create a custom script for coverage test and your composer scripts section might look like this:

"scripts": {
...
    "coverage-test": [
        "./vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html tests/Reports"
    ]
}

When executing this command:

composer coverage-test

there is a possibility (depending on your test cases you have) that you might get the following error:

[Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessTimedOutException]                                 
The process "coverage-test --coverage-html tests/Reports" exceeded the timeout of 300 seconds.

You can fix it by updating your script to like this:

"scripts": {
...
    "coverage-test": [
        "Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout",
        "./vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html tests/Reports"
    ]
}

If your try the command composer coverage-test now, it should work without any errors.

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