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mjnoach
mjnoach

Reputation: 179

Getting started with laravel

I just started my laravel course with laracast. I dont quite understand yet all the enviornment-related things.

I know that Composer is a kind of a program that downloads pre-written scripts to use in your project. But where does it work? On my local machine or on my vagrant homestead box VM? On which of these is it supposed to be installed?

I installed myself vagrant homestead box already but does it contain composer? When I go ssh into my guest machine and go to vagrant@homestead:/vagrant$ path I can see composer.json and composer.lock files, but does it mean that I have composer installed?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 81

Answers (1)

Pavlin
Pavlin

Reputation: 5528

Composer is a PHP package manager, like npm for javascript or pip for python. There are many examples of package managers. It's useful, because adding dependencies to your php projects can be a pain, but composer makes it really easy. You just add the dependency to composer.json and you can use it right off the bat.

Composer isn't laravel specific, you can use it in any php project, laravel uses it to manage it's dependencies, laravels dependencies use it to manage their dependencies and so forth.

If nothing else, the composer autoloader is great, so you can use it even if you don't plan on using external packages.

Homestead should come with composer installed. A composer.lock file is generated when you run a composer install or composer update. If you plan on creating or using other php projects on your machine, it's probably a good idea to have composer installed on your machine as well.

Upvotes: 4

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