Introduction to Composer
We use Composer to manage components and their dependencies. Using Composer to get the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source software metapackage provides the following advantages:
- Reuse third-party libraries without bundling them with source code
- Reduce extension conflicts and compatibility issues by using a component-based architecture with robust dependency management
- Adhere to PHP-Framework Interoperability Group (FIG) standards
- Repackage the software with other components
- Use the software in a production environment
Links to code#
The key to developing any component is its composer.json file, which specifies version and dependency information for a component, among other things. You can look at the code, such as:
- Metapackage, look at
<magento_root>/composer.json. - Customer module
- Luma theme
- en_us language package
For more information#
For more information about Composer, see the Composer documentation.
