Magento – Magento 2 Component manager (extension installation)

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I'm developing an extension for Magento 2, and was wondering what are my options for the installation process for users.
I saw in the magento documentation that there supposed to be a component manager where you are supposed to be able to install extensions with.

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/comp-mgr/compman-start.html

When I try to acces this from the Admin I am routed to page that wants to start the Magento installation process from the start (Magento 2 is obviously already installed).

Is this not yet in the Beta version of Magento 2?
What are my other options?
Am I supposed to upload my extension to a composer repository?

Best Answer

The functionality described in the document was released after Magento 2 Merchant Beta release.

If you try to install from the development branch on github, you should see the Component Management UI. However, it won't be possible to use all its features before Magento sources will be published to the Composer repository. That will happen during GA release.

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Magento2 Upgrade – How to Update Using Composer

Edit the composer.json file on root folder and change the version of magento in line 5:

"version": "2.0.1",

and under "require"

"require": {
"magento/product-community-edition": "2.0.1",

Now run:

composer update

Then run:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

And finally re-deploy the static files, which for me is this command:

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy de_DE en_US

That worked for me.

Install Dependencies for Manually Installed Modules – Magento 2 Guide

If not, is the best approach here to simply copy & paste any dependencies into the main project composer.json? That's pretty inelegant.

Yes, given that the extension is manually copied to app/code, this is the best approach, and yes, this is pretty inelegant.

The real best solution is to not copy the extension manually. It already has a composer.json file, so you can install it with composer. Set up a private repository (for example at Bitbucket or on the local filesystem outside of the Magento root), specify it in repositories of your composer.json and then require the module as any other composer module.

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