How to configure Magento 2 to have personal/private develpment extensions just for myself

Question

I have several development tools which I personally use like:

• https://github.com/ho-nl/magento2-Ho_Templatehints
• https://github.com/mage2tv/magento-cache-clean

Is it possible to somehow configure and use it for myself? Other team members are not using it.

The specific issues:

• app/etc/config.php is in the repo, I cannot commit it
• composer.json and composer.lock are in the repo, I cannot commit it

I would like to use both modules and enable them without changing any repo files. Would that be possible?

Answer 1

for https://github.com/ho-nl/magento2-Ho_Templatehints you should add it to app/code then add the module path to .gitignore for further added by mistake

https://github.com/mage2tv/magento-cache-clean You can put it in dev folder also add to .gitignore this module seems can be ran by access directly like this dev/{module-path}/bin/cache-clean.js (not sure about the 2nd module but you can try)

Answer 2

• Add the plugins to the app/code folder

• Run bin/console setup:upgrade

• Your local app/etc/config.php file will be changed, but it will not
  influence the one on the server and you won't need to commit it, so
  just keep it changed locally