Posts tagged composer

Various thoughts on Composer: Part 1

Before you read on, let me make this clear: I love Composer, I really do! It has brought a lot of improvements to the PHP ecosystem by providing a common package manager that all developers can use [1].

However, I sometimes feel it doesn’t quite deliver some of its early promises or that it still lacks some important features.

This is the first post of a series of articles about what I find to be defective in Composer itself or in the way it is usually employed. It concerns security and how it is addressed in Composer.

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