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...
While there is much excitement about Facebook’s new Yarn project, the continuing success of Node.js owes much to its original package manager, npm. A few simple npm commands is all it takes to initialize a folder (npm init), download packages (npm install) and create tests (npm test) and custom scripts (npm run) ...
Yarn is a new JavaScript package manager built by Facebook, Google, Exponent and Tilde. As can be read in the official announcement, its purpose is to solve a handful of problems that these teams faced with npm, namely:installing packages wasn’t fast/consistent enough, and there were security concerns, as npm a...
Facebook has made a big splash this past week with the announcement of its new JavaScript package manager, Yarn. Your initial reaction may be similar to mine when I first heard this: isn’t another package manager the last thing we need?! It seemed that, despite the upheaval of a seemingly never-ending parade of n...
From the didn’t see that coming news desk:We’re pleased to announce the open source release of Yarn, a collaboration with Exponent, Google, and Tilde. With Yarn, engineers still have access to the npm registry, but can install packages more quickly and manage dependencies consistently across machines or i...
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...
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...
Learning JavaScript is a great journey, but knowing the language and its syntax is only the beginning. Once the novice becomes a journeyman, they are confronted with a seemingly endless number of tools and libraries which are used to create, manage and maintain modern JavaScript code. Invariably, confusion strikes! As ...
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