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Chocolatey vs Composer: What are the differences?
Chocolatey: A command line application installer for Windows *. It is based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, It adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction; *Composer:** Dependency Manager for PHP. Composer 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.
Chocolatey and Composer belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.
Composer is an open source tool with 20.5K GitHub stars and 5.56K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Composer's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Composer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 138 company stacks & 246 developers stacks; compared to Chocolatey, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Chocolatey
Pros of Composer
- Must have dependency manager for PHP7
- Centralized autoload.php3
- Large number of libraries3