🆚 Bower vs. Composer
- 📈 Composer is four times more popular than Bower.
- 🌎 Composer is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Bower is more popular in Albania, Fiji, and Puerto Rico.
BowerType
About
Bower is a package manager for the web, optimized for front-end assets such as 
HTML, 
CSS, 
JavaScript, fonts, and images.
It uses a flat dependency tree, installs packages from 
Git, tracks dependencies, supports hooks for build tools, and although still maintained, the Bower team recommends using Yarn for new front-end projects.
Composer is an application-level dependency manager for 
PHP that lets developers declare, install, and update external libraries.
It resolves package versions, downloads required files from repositories like Packagist, and generates PSR-4 autoloaders.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Albania in the Package Managers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Package Managers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Package Managers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the Package Managers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Package Managers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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Yarn🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.