Composer

Developing Laravel Packages with Local Composer Dependencies

Developing Composer packages locally through a local file symlink speeds up development immensely when you want to create Laravel packages and try them out on a real application. Learn how you can set up local composer dependencies and easily develop Laravel packages alongside a real Laravel application.

Composer v1.6.4 is Released With a Security Fix

The Composer team released v1.6.4 and it includes a security fix so all users are encouraged to upgrade and it also includes fixes for almost 200 different
issues.

Insights into Laravel package design

In this tutorial, we will look at the basics of creating and installing Laravel packages into your projects.

Laravel Package Auto-Discovery

Package Auto-Discovery is coming to Laravel 5.5 and you’ll no longer have to manually define the Service Provider or Alias in the config app file.

Packagist and the PHP ecosystem

Take a look at how Composer finds its packages, and how to publish packages of your own, and some security considerations when using Composer in your application.

Composer PHP Versions Stats: May 2017

Jordi Boggiano has published the PHP version stats for the first part of 2017 on his site and PHP 7.1 has made the largest jump since he last published last year.

Building maintainable PHP apps using Composer

This tutorial brought to you by Recognize the problem of trying to use somebody’s library and having to copy it into your codebase, use submodules, or even PEAR, which causes headaches for many PHP developers. Composer is here to solve these problems, similar to NPM for JavaScript devs, and Bundler for Ruby devs, by defining …

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The Packagist Team Announces A Private Version For Companies

The Packagist team has just announced a private commercial version that allows you to install your code with Composer faster, comes with permission management, and gives you more insights into your dependencies. “With Private Packagist composer update runs a lot faster”, said Nils Adermann, “because the package metadata does not need to be loaded from …

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PHP Version Stats: May 2016

Jordi Boggiano, the creator of the Composer project, released PHP version stats for May of 2016 and a comparison against last November. I look in the packagist.org logs of the last 28 days for Composer installs done by someone. Composer sends the PHP version it is running with in its User-Agent header, so I can …

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LN 14: Laravel Spark

This week Taylor Otwell joins us to talk all about Spark! You can listen below, subscribe in iTunes, Google Play, or grab the RSS from the podcast hosting site. Show links: Laravel Spark Launched (official site) Composer “Gold” Floppy sells for >$1400USD! Laravel Cheat Sheets