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Why composer.json is required for artisan command in Laravel?

I am creating a laravel package for production and removing the composer.json and composer. lock once the dependencies are installed. But when I ran any artisan command I get the below error

In Application.php line 1399:
  file_get_contents(/var/www/project_dir/composer.json): Failed to open stream
  : No such file or directory

I am excluding the composer.json from the production environment as the autoloading is done through vendor/autoload.php.

I was doing the same thing previously as well but not sure the issue appeared suddenly when I am deploying the new release.

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    After investigating the issue I have found that the issue is causing due to

    $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands'); code called in AppConsoleKernel class in commands() function.

    Basically, we have registered the console commands using php artisan make:command, and it created the file inside the commands directory which is fine. But the load method from vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php try to get the application namespace that fails due to a missing composer.json file.

    So, to handle this I have removed the $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands'); line from commands() function inside the AppConsoleKernel class and registered the commands manually using $commands property within AppConsoleKernel class.

    https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/artisan#registering-commands


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    Laravel’s class IlluminateFoundationApplication loads the root application namespace from your composer.json. This is nothing new, I can find such code even in Laravel v6 from 2015.

    If your code was working well in any prior version of Laravel without having a composer.json deployed, but is no longer, you should check what has changed in your application

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