Magento 2 – updating locally with Composer

Updating Magento 2 locally with Composer

Magento 2 deployment is a bit more advanced than Magento 1.x. so you’ll need to have already set up your site locally using Vagrant, Wampserver or similar.

1. Run the Node.js command Prompt
2. Navigate to your project e.g.

   CD\

   CD SiteFiles\MyWebsiteProject 

3. Make sure all current dependencies are installed. You should already have a composer.json file in the root of your Magento site

   composer install

4. Get the newer version of Magento (change the version number as required)

   composer require magento/product-community-edition 2.1.2 --no-update

   composer update

5. Update your Magento database schema and data

   php bin/magento setup:upgrade

6. Compile your code. Use the second line if you need to allocate more memory to the process

   php bin/magento setup:di:compile

   php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:di:compile

7. Reindex your website

   php bin/magento indexer:reindex

8. Flush the cache

   php bin/magento cache:flush

9. Check that you are now running the new version

   php bin/magento --version