Disabling Composer's script process timeout

For repetitive processes in my projects, I typically use Composer's script functionality to make running scripts and executing binaries simpler for myself and my team.

One thing that I run into often is long-running processes, such as watcher scripts or background processes, exceeding Composer's default script timeout of 300 seconds. An example of where I see this most often is large test suites that can take more than 5 minutes to run, normally end-to-end tests.

{
    "scripts": {
        "e2e": "./bin/run-tests.sh --browser"
    }
}

To disable Composer's default timeout, you need to update the entry in the scripts section of your composer.json file to call the Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout method before running your own code.

{
    "scripts": {
        "e2e": [
            "Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout",
            "./bin/run-tests.sh --browser"
        ],
    }
}

You can read more about this in Composer's official documentation here.