From dd2e745cb648ab8ab63d5c99f9967868529cf6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Klein Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:22:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Adding some context about Composer for people from other ecosystems --- _posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md b/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md index 14bb2b2..dab83f8 100644 --- a/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md +++ b/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ anchor: composer_and_packagist Composer is a **brilliant** dependency manager for PHP. List your project's dependencies in a `composer.json` file and, with a few simple commands, Composer will automatically download your project's dependencies and setup autoloading for -you. +you. Composer is analogous to NPM in the node.js world, or Bundler in the Ruby world. There are already a lot of PHP libraries that are compatible with Composer, ready to be used in your project. These "packages" are listed on [Packagist], the official repository for Composer-compatible PHP libraries.