Yes, PHP is Worth Learning/Using in $CURRENT_YEAR

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Packagist

Packagist is the main public package repository for Composer. Like npm, you can also use Packagist to host your private packages for a reasonable monthly fee.

#Package Manager #Software Development #Developer Tools 53 social mentions

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Lumen Framework

If you're concerned about frameworks perhaps being "overkill" for what you want to do with PHP, you'll be happy to hear that Symfony is a microframework out of the box (all components outside of the core framework are 100% optional), and Laravel also has a microframework variant called Lumen.

#Work Management #PHP Framework #Time Tracking 12 social mentions

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Laravel

The current PHP landscape is dominated by two web application frameworks: Laravel and Symfony. While a detailed breakdown of the differences and similarities between these is out of scope for this post, suffice to say that they're both modern, expressive frameworks that aim to make it easier to write robust, fast, and maintainable web applications while reducing the need to write boilerplate code as much as possible.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #PHP Framework 195 social mentions

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Composer

Composer is the de facto standard package manager for modern-day PHP, and has been for about a decade now. It's strongly inspired by other popular package managers, such as npm for JavaScript, so if you've used a modern package manager in any other language, chances are you'll feel right at home with Composer.

#Development Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework 124 social mentions

#Software Development #Software Development Tools #Web Development Tools 2409 social mentions