Getting a copy of Adobe Commerce/Magento Open Source

Is it not that easy to get the Adobe Commerce version for local development, especially if you are a freelancer and you are just staging your journey with Adobe Commerce/Magento frontend development. It is much easier if you work for a larger agency that does have multiple projects on this platform already and they can share a pair of composer keys with you.

Wait… a pair of what? This is where we need to introduce another tool that will be required to run Adobe Commerce/Magento Open Source on your local instance – Composer:

Figure 2.1 – Composer logo

Now, I don’t want to dive into too many details again, so let me explain this in a very simple way. If you know a little about npm for Node.js or Bundler for Ruby, Composer is the same tool for PHP – it is a package manager. Some people say that Composer is the best package manager. Its role is to manage code dependencies...