Composer is a great tool for dependency management but for local development it can become time consuming to keep running it to update builds. There are ways round this such as symlinking, but with build tools like gulp it seems there should be better ways to monitor changes to local libraries. Watching a local library makes sense but composer bases it's update decisions on the latest git commit,
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