Composer: All You Need To Know

Laravel is a framework, but it's also a PHP package, installable by the composer package manager when you run the command composer create-project laravel/laravel. Let's explore the syntax options and other composer-related topics.

"composer install" VS "composer require"

A quick start answering this common question.

When running the composer install command, composer installs every package in the composer.json file list.

The composer require package/name is similar but does 2-in-1. This command installs a package to a project and adds it to a composer.json file required list.

composer.json VS composer.lock: install VS update

In composer.json, you specify what...