What is Packagist?
It is the main Composer repository. It aggregates public PHP packages installable with Composer. It lets you find packages and lets Composer know where to get the code from. You can use Composer to manage your project or libraries' dependencies
Packagist is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Packagist is an open source tool with 1.7K GitHub stars and 475 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Packagist's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Packagist?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Packagist in their tech stacks, including PUBLY, Monogramm, and funin.
Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Packagist.
Packagist Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Packagist?
Composer
It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
