Authorizing the Shift Build

Many of the recent Shifts perform analysis in order to provide more intelligent and precise changes. This requires building your projects by installing your dependencies and running scripts like artisan.

This may require additional authorization for Shift to install private dependencies. Fortunately, composer makes this easy by adding an auth.json file to your project.

Currently, the following Shifts attempt to build your project:

• Laravel Linter
• Laravel Fixer
• Dependency Updater
• Test Generator

If you are attempting to run one of these Shifts against a project with private dependencies, you may need to configure an auth.json file.

Note: Shift has access to all first-party Laravel packages such as Spark and Nova. As such, you are not required to configure authorization for these packages.

Configuring auth.json

Creating an auth.json file not only allows Shift to build your project, but other services like Forge and Travis CI as well as other developers working with your code.

To configure an auth.json file, first add one to your project at the same level of your composer.json file.

This file contains credentials for authorizing composer to download dependencies from private sources. While these credentials may be a user account, it's better to generate a token.

Although you may revoke a token at any time, they should be treated as passwords. The process for generating a token will vary. To generating a token for common sources, review the documentation from GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab..

Once you have obtained this token, you can use it as the credentials for that source within your auth.json file.

For example, the following auth.json file sets a token for each of the common sources list above:

{
    "github-oauth": {
        "github.com": "github-token-1234567890"
    },
    "gitlab-oauth": {
        "gitlab.com": "gitlab-token-1234567890"
    },
    "bitbucket-oauth": {
        "bitbucket.org": {
            "consumer-key": "bitbucket-consumer-key-1234567890",
            "consumer-secret": "bitbucket-consumer-secret-1234567890"
        }
    }
}