Code organization with laravel and several git repositories

Question

I am working on several projects but each one connects to a REST web service.

I've developed the first one using Laravel, and developed a few classes really useful to communicate with the web services.

I would like to start the second one, and of course, reuse the classes developed for the REST connection.

My problem is, my company wants me to use several git directories for the projects, and each one should be uploaded to a different springloops project. Springloops is a bit like github, you can upload your code using git.

How would you proceed to avoid copy/paste and use the same laravel code but in different projects (and I guess, in different locations)?

I'm not sure I'm really clear, but don't hesitate to ask me for more information if you need to.

Thanks.

Answer 1

How about creating your own Composer package and store it in a separate (private) Git repo? As far as Composer is concerned it's just like any other package, you may want to check out this section of the docs:

Using private repositories

Exactly the same solution allows you to work with your private repositories at GitHub and BitBucket:

{
    "require": {
        "vendor/my-private-repo": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url":  "git@bitbucket.org:vendor/my-private-repo.git"
        }
    ]
}

The only requirement is the installation of SSH keys for a git client.