Why are some packages installed inside Application, others inside Framework or Library?

Neos / Flow FAQ
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Answer

The package install location is determined by the type inside composer.json of the respective package. Currently, the following types are used:

  • typo3-flow-framework - reserved for Flow Framework; installs inside Packages/Framework
  • typo3-flow-site - a Neos site. Installs inside Packages/Sites
  • typo3-flow-package - a Flow package which is not the Flow Framework itself. Neos itself is in this category, as well as many packages you write yourself.
  • typo3-flow-plugin - a plugin inside Neos. No technical distinction from typo3-flow-package.
  • [others] - installed into Libraries - all composer packages which do not depend on the Flow Framework, f.e. make no use of the Dependency Injection.

Almost all of your packages will be of type typo3-flow-package and thus live in Packages/Application.

This has consequences for the project setup; see best practice project structure for further information.

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Hm. According to the “rules” here question that should go to Stack Overflow. :wink:

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You have a point. maybe we neded to change the rules then :wink:

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According to the rules this is a subject for meta discussion :stuck_out_tongue:

On topic: typo3-flow-plugin is missing.

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Thanks Dmitri, I fixed this :slight_smile: