Drupal 8: Applying Patches with Composer

How to apply and manage patches with composer.

First add the library ‘cweagans/composer-patches’ to your composer.json

Then under installer-paths in your composer.json add “patches”.  “Patches” is then organized by modules.  Here is an example:

        "installer-paths": {
        },
        "patches": {
          "drupal/commerce_shipping": {
                "Commerce Shipping - Deleted Profile Error": "https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2018-06-15/commerce_shipping-deleted-profile-error-2969540-6.patch",
                "Patch Label": "https://path-to-patch'
            }
        }