How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

Composer 1.x and 2.x

Running the following command will remove the package from vendor (or wherever you install packages), composer.json and composer.lock. Change vendor/package appropriately.

composer remove vendor/package

Obviously you'll need to remove references to that package within your app.

I'm currently running the following version of composer:

Composer version 1.0-dev (7b13507dd4d3b93578af7d83fbf8be0ca686f4b5) 2014-12-11 21:52:29

Documentation

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove

Updates

• 26/10/2020 - Updated answer to assert command works for v1.x and v2.x of Composer

Got it working... The steps to remove a package from Laravel are:

1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "require" section)
2. Remove Service Provider from config/app.php (reference in "providers" array)
3. Remove any Class Aliases from config/app.php
4. Remove any references to the package from your code :-)
5. Run composer update vendor/package-name. This will remove the package folder from the vendor folder and will rebuild the composer autoloading map.
6. Manually delete the published files (read the comment by zwacky)

It will remove the package folder from Vendor folder

Running the following command

composer remove Vendor/Package Name

That's all. No need composer update. Vendor/Package Name is just directory as installed before