🆚 Composer vs. Npm

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Type

Package manager technology
Package manager technology

About

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.

Npm is a JavaScript package manager bundled with Node.js.

It provides access to a registry of over 3 million packages, supports semantic versioning and dependency resolution, generates a lockfile for reproducible installs, offers script automation, and includes built-in commands for auditing known vulnerabilities.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Unlimited public packages
Pro
(+ private packages)
$7/month
Teams
(+ team-based permissions)
$7/user/month

Categories

Package Managers › Rank #2
Package Managers › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Npm package manager technology is 1.1 times more popular than Composer.
Total websites

Market share

Package Managers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Npm is more popular in the United States, Spain, and India, while Composer is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Russia
India
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Npm is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while Composer is more commonly used on online shopping, education and reference, and health sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
erome.com
#109
#183
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Name
Rank
#12
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