file comparisons running app and those vendor

My understanding when running "composer update"  from the root of my web application is that new versions of files will end up in vendor. I can read the upgrading
but I can if i so wish also run commands like :
[andrew@darkstar Config]$  sdiff  /srv/http/CI4-CMS/app/Config/Email.php          /srv/http/CI4-CMS/vendor/codeigniter4/framework/app/Config/Email.php




and compare say config files being used in my web app and also those that are updated which I understand are in  vendor/codeigniter4/framework
SO in the image above i can validate yes there were some chnage but only comments. So far so good.
So it looks like I can poke around in vendor/codeigniter4/framework,and files with same name as that in my running web app should be comparable.
Now then my actual composer.json which started  quite a while back looks like :

Code:

{
    "name": "codeigniter4/appstarter",
    "description": "CodeIgniter4 starter app",
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "homepage": "https://codeigniter.com",
    "support": {
        "forum": "https://forum.codeigniter.com/",
        "source": "https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4",
        "slack": "https://codeigniterchat.slack.com"
    },
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.1",
        "codeigniter4/framework": "4.5.5",
        "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.8"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9",
        "mikey179/vfsstream": "^1.6",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.5.16"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            "Config\\": "app/Config/"
        },
        "exclude-from-classmap": [
            "**/Database/Migrations/**"
        ]
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Tests\\Support\\": "tests/_support"
        }
    },
    "config": {
        "optimize-autoloader": true,
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true
    },
    "scripts": {
        "test": "phpunit"
    }
}

if i run composer for a new app stater eg
[andrew@darkstar Desktop]$ composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter newApp
the composer.json file  looks like:

Code:

{
    "name": "codeigniter4/appstarter",
    "description": "CodeIgniter4 starter app",
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "homepage": "https://codeigniter.com",
    "support": {
        "forum": "https://forum.codeigniter.com/",
        "source": "https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4",
        "slack": "https://codeigniterchat.slack.com"
    },
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.1",
        "codeigniter4/framework": "^4.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9",
        "mikey179/vfsstream": "^1.6",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.5.16"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            "Config\\": "app/Config/"
        },
        "exclude-from-classmap": [
            "**/Database/Migrations/**"
        ]
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Tests\\Support\\": "tests/_support"
        }
    },
    "config": {
        "optimize-autoloader": true,
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true
    },
    "scripts": {
        "test": "phpunit"
    }
}

So a new CI4 installation using composer is very close if not identical to what I have but if i go to :


/srv/http/CI4-CMS/vendor/codeigniter4/framework
composer.json looks like :

Code:

{
    "name": "codeigniter4/framework",
    "description": "The CodeIgniter framework v4",
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "homepage": "https://codeigniter.com",
    "support": {
        "forum": "https://forum.codeigniter.com/",
        "source": "https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4",
        "slack": "https://codeigniterchat.slack.com"
    },
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.1",
        "ext-intl": "*",
        "ext-mbstring": "*",
        "laminas/laminas-escaper": "^2.13",
        "psr/log": "^3.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "codeigniter/coding-standard": "^1.7",
        "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9",
        "friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^3.47.1",
        "kint-php/kint": "^5.0.4",
        "mikey179/vfsstream": "^1.6",
        "nexusphp/cs-config": "^3.6",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.5.16 || ^11.2",
        "predis/predis": "^1.1 || ^2.0"
    },
    "suggest": {
        "ext-curl": "If you use CURLRequest class",
        "ext-dom": "If you use TestResponse",
        "ext-exif": "If you run Image class tests",
        "ext-fileinfo": "Improves mime type detection for files",
        "ext-gd": "If you use Image class GDHandler",
        "ext-imagick": "If you use Image class ImageMagickHandler",
        "ext-libxml": "If you use TestResponse",
        "ext-memcache": "If you use Cache class MemcachedHandler with Memcache",
        "ext-memcached": "If you use Cache class MemcachedHandler with Memcached",
        "ext-mysqli": "If you use MySQL",
        "ext-oci8": "If you use Oracle Database",
        "ext-pgsql": "If you use PostgreSQL",
        "ext-readline": "Improves CLI::input() usability",
        "ext-redis": "If you use Cache class RedisHandler",
        "ext-simplexml": "If you format XML",
        "ext-sodium": "If you use Encryption SodiumHandler",
        "ext-sqlite3": "If you use SQLite3",
        "ext-sqlsrv": "If you use SQL Server",
        "ext-xdebug": "If you use CIUnitTestCase::assertHeaderEmitted()"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "CodeIgniter\\": "system/"
        },
        "exclude-from-classmap": [
            "**/Database/Migrations/**"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "optimize-autoloader": true,
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true
    },
    "scripts": {
        "test": "phpunit"
    }
}

doesnt look right to me, where is my slightly amended composer.json file located to look at when things change ?

CMS CI4 A CMS system, runs out of the box written on top of CI4

Arch Book  CodeIgniter4 on Apache(pages 92-114) 

CI4-CMS Github  

Packet appstarter and framework different.
the composer for the framework will not match. You are trying to compare different -  package and project files.

Simple CI 4 project for beginners codeigniter-expenses ( topic )

i could now and again just create a new app starter and see if there is any significant code difference . I could also compare all files against what I have . If i did that what is the point of having

Code:

[andrew@darkstar ~]$ cd /srv/http/CI4-CMS/vendor
[andrew@darkstar vendor]$ tree -L 2 codeigniter4
codeigniter4
└── framework
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── README.md
    ├── app
    ├── composer.json
    ├── env
    ├── phpunit.xml.dist
    ├── preload.php
    ├── public
    ├── spark
    ├── system
    ├── tests
    └── writable

7 directories, 7 files
[andrew@darkstar vendor]$

CMS CI4 A CMS system, runs out of the box written on top of CI4

Arch Book  CodeIgniter4 on Apache(pages 92-114) 

CI4-CMS Github  

Ok. Install CI4 as root - with system dir. git clone https://github.com/codeigniter4/framework.git ci4-root

Simple CI 4 project for beginners codeigniter-expenses ( topic )