JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Using composer.json in PHP

Dependency management has often been a little rocky, and for new developers who are just coming in adding new frameworks into their projects, setting up their projects, and getting them to run can be daunting. A dependency manager such as Composer for PHP solves this issue. It is considered as the "glue between all projects," and there is a good reason for that. Composer uses JSON to keep track of all the dependencies for a given project. Composer's primary job is to download libraries from remote locations and store them locally. To inform Composer as to what libraries we need, we need to set up the composer.json file. This file keeps track of all the specific libraries, their versions, and the environments that ...