#1 most frequent
United States of America
34.3%290 installations of 846
What is Composer?
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that simplifies the management of libraries and dependencies in PHP projects. It is designed to cater to the needs of web developers, software engineers, PHP developers, IT professionals, and e-commerce companies. According to the vendor, Composer offers a comprehensive solution for managing dependencies in PHP projects, making it suitable for businesses of various sizes.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Composer
#2 most frequent
Germany
11.6%98 installations of 846
#3 most frequent
India
8.4%71 installations of 846
Composer is your "must have" dependency manager
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Composer helps us dealing with dependencies for all our projects. It automates the boring proccess of reviewing if all the dependencies are right placed/insert into a project and allows us to fastly inject any other dependecy in a project.
Pros
- Controlling dependencies
- Fast dependency resolver
- Easy to use dependency injection
Cons
- Documentation can de improved
Most Important Features
- Controlling dependencies
- Giving agility to software development
Return on Investment
- Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
Other Software Used
PhpStorm, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Docker
If you use PHP, you NEED composer now !
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Composer, and its indexes, packagist.org, and packagist.com (the entreprise edition of packagist.org) extensively to manage our reusable PHP modules and dependencies inside the company.
Most of our PHP projects contain only a composer.json file, which will reference external modules indexed inside Packagist, and composer is then used to fetch these dependencies at build, using the command line "composer install"
Pros
- Dependencies management and their lifecycles
- Composer command line is very flexible and easy to use
- Branch and Tags for release management of the dependencies
Cons
- 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
Most Important Features
- Modules and dependency management for all PHP projects
- Awareness of git tagging and branching when making internal modules
- Ease of use inside our CI/CD pipelines, for building, testing and deploying
Return on Investment
- Helped us reduce the TTM of our ecommerce factory by about 40% since we adopted it
- Code re-usability became the norm, and thus much shorter development cycles
- New websites go live much faster, and thus cost way less money to make when reusing composer modules (SSO, CRM integration, modules to call Internal APIs ...)
Alternatives Considered
npm and Yarn
Other Software Used
Magento Open Source, GitLab, Laravel PHP Framework