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Composer

Composer is a package manager not in the same sense as Yum or Apt are. Yes, it deals with "packages" or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside your project.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • PHP
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  • Developed by

    Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and many community contributions

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  29,548 Stars
  •  4,843 Forks
  •  142 Open Issues
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  • brew install composer

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What is Composer?

Composer is a package manager not in the same sense as Yum or Apt are. Yes, it deals with "packages" or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside your project. By default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager. It does however support a "global" project for convenience via the global command.

This idea is not new and Composer is strongly inspired by node's npm and ruby's bundler.