Composer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.
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Parcel.js
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Parcel, or Parcel.js, is a zero configuration web application bundler. Parcel supports many languages and file types out of the box, from web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to assets like images, fonts, and videos. When a file type isn't included by default, Parcel will automatically install all of the necessary plugins and dev dependencies for the user.
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If you're familiar with NPM or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some …
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If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
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
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