The composer.lock
The main purpose of composer.lock is to lock dependencies.
As discussed, the composer.lock file is very important. This is because when a specific exact version is not specified in composer.json or a package is installed through composer require without version information, Composer installs the package and, after installing, adds information regarding that package installation including the exact version (that is installed).
If, package is already in composer.lock, then most probably you have the package listed in composer.json as well. In that case, you normally install the package through composer install and Composer will read the package details and version information from composer.lock and install exactly that version ...
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