As PHP and Laravel programmers, we use Composer every day. But we often don't know its history, nuances, or the plans for the future.

In this episode Matt talks with Jordi Bogianno, co-creator and co-maintainer of Composer, about the powerful tool's history, common use cases, and overall purpose. But we also dive into some nuances, some common mistakes, how it differs from NPM, and the future of the tool.

• TeamUp: https://www.teamup.com/
• Jordi's Twitter: twitter.com/seldaek
• Composer docs: https://getcomposer.org/doc/
• Private Packagist: https://packagist.com/
• Jordi's Composer Deep Dev talk at Laracon EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3UfxubW_PU
• Composer Best Packages talk by Nils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvihKaQyLs
• Jordi's OSS wish list: http://seld.be/wishlist
• Balvenie scotch: https://www.thebalvenie.com/

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.