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Composer vs MyGet: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is MyGet? The Secure Universal Package Manager. MyGet allows you to create and host your own NuGet feed. Include packages from the official NuGet feed or upload your own NuGet packages. We can also compile and package your source code from GitHub, BitBucket, CodePlex and more!.
Composer and MyGet can be primarily classified as "Package Managers" tools.
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.
Pros of Composer
- Must have dependency manager for PHP7
- Centralized autoload.php3
- Large number of libraries3