Category: Package Management

Re-Introducing Composer – the Cornerstone of Modern PHP Apps

In this article, we will tackle the basics of Composer, and what makes it such a powerful and useful tool. Before we go into detail, there are two things that we need to have in mind:What Composer is: As we can see on their website: “Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare...

Composer Global Require Considered Harmful?

We’ve discussed Composer best practices before, and I’ve always advocated using composer global require when installing packages that can be used across several projects – particularly command line tools. Then, the other day, I ran into this discussion. [author_more]The short of it is – the ma...

A Beginner’s Guide to npm — the Node Package Manager

Node.js makes it possible to write applications in JavaScript on the server. It’s built on the V8 JavaScript runtime and written in C++ — so it’s fast. Originally, it was intended as a server environment for applications, but developers started using it to create tools to aid them in local task automation...