AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack vs. Composer

AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack

3 Reviews and Ratings

Composer

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack	Score9 out of 10	N/A	AMPPS is presented as a bloat-free local development stack with PHP, MySQL, Apache and Softaculous.AMPPS supports all the latest versions of PHP, Apache and MySQL. Installing and updating these packages is just one click. Softaculous auto installer is also included with AMPPS which enables you to install 400+ apps like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, phpBB, etc which can be installed and updated with just one click. AMPPS supports Windows and Mac both.	$49 per year
Composer	Score6 out of 10	N/A	Composer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack	Composer
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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User Ratings
	AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack	Composer
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AMPPS - WAMP & MAMP Stack	Composer
Likelihood to Recommend	Softaculous Ltd No answers on this topic	Open Source I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase. Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Softaculous Ltd No answers on this topic	Open Source Controlling dependencies Fast dependency resolver Easy to use dependency injection Incentivized Leandro Chaves Desenvolvedor de software Read full review
Cons	Softaculous Ltd No answers on this topic	Open Source Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Softaculous Ltd No answers on this topic	Open Source If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ... Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Softaculous Ltd No answers on this topic	Open Source Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software. Incentivized Leandro Chaves Desenvolvedor de software Read full review
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