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Composer vs Hex: What are the differences?
Developers describe Composer as "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. On the other hand, Hex is detailed as "Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem". Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.
Composer and Hex belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.
Composer and Hex are both open source tools. Composer with 20.2K GitHub stars and 5.54K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Hex with 564 GitHub stars and 116 GitHub forks.
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- Must have dependency manager for PHP7
- Centralized autoload.php3
- Large number of libraries3
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What is 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.
What is Hex?
Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.
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What are some alternatives to Composer and Hex?
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Swarm
Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.
Elementor
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