How to Remove a Package from Laravel using Composer?

Remove a package from Laravel using composer it’s so simple and easy you can do with the step by step process which I have given in this article How to Remove a Package from Laravel using Composer?.

Step 1 : Remove declaration from composer.json.

#composer.json

"require": {
    ...
    "barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "^0.8.6", //remove
    ...
},

Step 2 : Remove Service Provider and Class Aliases from config/app.php (providers and aliases array).

#config/app.php

'providers' => [
    ...
    Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,//remove
    ...
],

'aliases' => [
    ...
    'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,//remove
    ...
],

Step 3 : Remove any references to the package from your code (Like Conroller,Model,Views etc file).

#remove pdf function.

public function pdf(Request $request) { 
    $model = Model::all();
    $pdf = PDF::loadView('jobsheet.pdf', compact('model'));
    $pdf->save(storage_path('pdf/').'devnote.pdf');
    return $pdf->download('devnote.pdf');
}

Step 4 : Run below command. This will remove the package folder from vendor folder and will rebuild composer autoloading map.

Syntax : composer remove vendor/package name

Example : composer remove barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Also Read : How to get all installed packages with version in composer?

Now check package remove form list.

composer show - i

Step 5: Manually delete the published files.

It will remove the package folder from vendor folder.

Then composer update below command to :

composer global update

And

composer dump-autoload

composer dump-autoload it just regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project (autoload_classmap.php). you execute composer dump-autoload -o for a faster load of your webpages.

Now you can remove a package from Laravel using composer