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This composer plugin allows you to run the tasks inside your composer file in parallel. No more waiting on one specific task!

Installation

composer require --dev veewee/composer-run-parallel

or globally ...

composer require --global veewee/composer-run-parallel

{
  "scripts": {
    "php1": "@php -r 'sleep(3); echo \"1\";'",
    "php2": "@php -r 'echo \"2\";'"
  }
}

Following command will result in parallel execution of both php1 and php2:

composer run parallel php1 php2

You can even create a shortcut script for the parallel function like this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "php1": "@php -r 'sleep(3); echo \"1\";'",
    "php2": "@php -r 'echo \"2\";'",
    "php1And2": "@parallel php1 php2"
  }
}

composer run php1And2

What if a task fails?

{
  "scripts": {
    "php1": "@php -r 'sleep(3); echo \"1\";'",
    "phpfail": "@php -r 'throw new Exception(\"FAIL\");'"
  }
}

All tasks will be executed and if one fails, the parallel task will fail as well:

composer run parallel php1 phpfail

Succesfully ran:
php1

Failed running:
phpfail

Not all tasks could be executed succesfully!

Note: You can also use the shorthand command:

composer parallel php1 phpfail

Pretty cool right? What If I told you there is even more?!

{
  "scripts": {
    "wicked": [
      "@parallel vendor php2",
      "@php1"
    ]
  }
}

You can even mix parallel tasks with serial tasks and even nest multiple parallel tasks at the same time. This way you can create flows like: