From the course: PHP: Testing Legacy Applications
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Poor package management practices
From the course: PHP: Testing Legacy Applications
Poor package management practices
- [Instructor] I know that in a previous video, I mentioned Composer and Packagist. I want to do a bit of a deeper dive into them for folks who are working with legacy codebases that might not have been built with them in mind. As I mentioned before, Composer is an open-source tool that was built to solve a difficult problem. How do we package up libraries of code in such a way that they can be easily distributed and easily installed? Before Composer, your choices were things like PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, or copying them to a location on the file system somewhere in PHP's load path. I don't think it's any kind of hyperbole to say that Composer changed the way PHP developers build their applications. A combination of Composer and Packagist, the website that acts as the main repository for searching for Composer packages, now makes it incredibly easy to install third-party libraries and all their required dependencies. Composer has expanded to allow for…
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