Suggestion: reduce vendor libraries

[rezzorix]

Would it be possible to reduce the size of the vendor folder?

Right now, the folder has over 26,000 files.
There are more than 25,000 files in Google apiclient-services alone (vendor\google\apiclient-services\src)

This includes APIs like Google Play and YouTube, which don’t seem necessary for EasyAppointments.

Could unused libraries be excluded or removed automatically during the build process?
This would make the project lighter and easier to deploy.

Thanks for considering this!

[alextselegidis]

Hello!

Thanks for submitting this ticket.

It is true that the Google Library is massive.

We'll check and see how this could become smaller.

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[rezzorix]

The Readme of Google APIs Client Library for PHP has a section about Cleaning up unused services

Cleaning up unused services

There are over 200 Google API services. The chances are good that you will not
want them all. In order to avoid shipping these dependencies with your code,
you can run the Google\Task\Composer::cleanup task and specify the services
you want to keep in composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "google/apiclient": "^2.15.0"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "pre-autoload-dump": "Google\\Task\\Composer::cleanup"
    },
    "extra": {
        "google/apiclient-services": [
            "Drive",
            "YouTube"
        ]
    }
}

This example will remove all services other than "Drive" and "YouTube" when
composer update or a fresh composer install is run.

IMPORTANT: If you add any services back in composer.json, you will need to
remove the vendor/google/apiclient-services directory explicitly for the
change you made to have effect:

rm -r vendor/google/apiclient-services
composer update

NOTE: This command performs an exact match on the service name, so to keep
YouTubeReporting and YouTubeAnalytics as well, you'd need to add each of
them explicitly:

{
    "extra": {
        "google/apiclient-services": [
            "Drive",
            "YouTube",
            "YouTubeAnalytics",
            "YouTubeReporting"
        ]
    }
}

Should be fairly simple to add only what is needed...
I manually deleted most of the services in the folder.
Not sure if each of the services is standalone by itself, or if there are inter-dependencies.
Logic tells me they should be standalone, so that should make inclusion/exclusion even easier.

[alextselegidis]

Hello!

Thanks for researching and providing a suggestion for this optimization.

This is really helpful :)

Will review and update accordingly.

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