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
15 companies reportedly use Packagist in their tech stacks, including PUBLY, Monogramm, and funin.
Developers
25 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.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
