Install via Composer

Installing spin at the project level is a great way to deploy spin without much configuration from the user's end. View spin on Packagist →

Add spin to your project with Composer

We can use Docker to run composer and install it on your project. Run this command from the parent folder of your project.

docker run --rm -e "S6_LOGGING=1" -v  $(pwd):/var/www/html serversideup/php:8.1-fpm composer require serversideup/spin --dev

If you already have composer installed on your machine:

We're essentially just installing it like this:

composer require serversideup/spin --dev

Spin is installed 🥳

You should now be able to access spin by running:

./vendor/bin/spin up

Bonus Tip: Use an alias

Rather than typing ./vendor/bin/spin every time, you can add a "smart alias", which will check to see if it exists in your node_modules, if not, it loads it from the vendor folder.

Just add this in your ~/.bash_profile or your ~/.zshrc:

alias spin='[ -f node_modules/.bin/spin ] && bash node_modules/.bin/spin || bash vendor/bin/spin'

You'll now be able to access spin from your project root directory.