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Published inSep 2017
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Waheed ud din
Waheed ud din
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Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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Composer is a dependency manager and has other different uses. Composer is used to install packages while resolving dependencies. Composer is also very good at auto-loading. There are more uses of as well. Here, we will discuss the different uses of Composer.

Composer as a dependency manager

Composer is a dependency manager. Now you can package your in a way that you don't need to ship third-party dependencies with it. You just need to tell its dependencies. In fact, your package dependencies can have more dependencies, and those dependencies can also have more dependencies. So, resolving all those dependencies while making a package or bundle could be really tiresome. But it is not, thanks to Composer.

Since is also a dependency manager, dependencies are not a problem anymore. We can just specify dependencies in a JSON file, and those dependencies are resolved by Composer. We will look into that JSON file shortly.

Installing packages

If we have dependencies (other packages...

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Waheed ud din

Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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