How to disable modules during installation with Magento CLI?

Question

Is there a way to disable some modules during install using cli, same way as it is possible in web wizard? Or is there a way to force composer to not even download some modules?

Answer 1

We can use the "replace" section in composer.json if you do not want to load any of the modules.

eg: If you do not want to load yotpo/magento2-module-yotpo-reviews you can add the following in composer.json. This will remove yotpo module loading in /vendor folder.

"replace": {
  "yotpo/magento2-module-yotpo-reviews": "*"
}

Please let me know if this works for you

Answer 2

Yes, there is a way if you are using Magento 2.3 or above, you can use --disable-modules

Example

As you can see in the last line, you can specify many modules at the same time.

php -f bin/magento setup:install \
 --base-url='https://local.magento2.com/' \
 --db-host=db \
 --db-name=magento \
 --db-user=magento \
 --db-password=magento \
 --admin-firstname=Rafael \
 --admin-lastname=Correa \
 [email protected] \
 --admin-user=admin \
 --admin-password=adminpassword \
 --language=en_CA \
 --currency=CAD \
 --use-rewrites=1 \
 --backend-frontname=admin \
 --elasticsearch-host=elasticsearch \
 --disable-modules='Yotpo_Yotpo,Vertex_AddressValidation,Smile_ElasticsuiteVirtualCategory'

Answer 3

You can disable existing modules using Magento CLI:

bin/magento module:disable Vendor_Module

If you want to download only specific modules using composer you have to create custom composer.json for this purpose, specifying only modules and libraries you'd like to fetch under require key.