Composer 101

Join us as Mike Miles, Senior Technical Solutions Manager at Genuine, presents his DrupalCon talk on Composer 101.

Composer is a php package manager that alleviates the complexity of dependencies in PHP based projects (such as Drupal 8). This session provides an introduction to the core concepts behind package management and Composer. No previous knowledge of Composer required.

Using practical examples as guidelines attendees will learn the basics of Composer, including:

• What composer is and the concepts of how it works.
• How to add composer to a project and packages to a project.
• Semantic versioning patterns for packages.
• General Do's and Don'ts when using Composer.

Attendees will leave with insights and basic knowledge of Composer. Including knowledge of how it works, the value it provides to projects and how to use it on any PHP project.

Food and beverages will be available for all attendees.