Disabling Composer's default timeout inside of scripts

Tips & Tricks – 12th April 2024

I like to use the scripts key inside of my composer.json to write reusable runner commands – normally things like background processes, build scripts, etc.

The problem is Composer has a default execution timeout of 30 seconds, so when I've got a long-running process like a queue worker running from a Composer script, it times out after 30 seconds.

Thankfully, there is a way to disable the timeout on a script-by-script basis.

{
    "scripts": {
        "queue": [
            "Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout",
            "php artisan queue:work"
        ]
    }
}

All you need to do is turn the script into a multi-step one and add Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout at start of the list. Composer's default 30 second timeout will be disabled for the rest of the steps.