🆚 Composer vs. Npm
- 📈 Npm is slightly more popular than Composer.
- 🌎 Npm is more popular in the United States, Spain, and India.
- 🌍 Composer is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
NpmType
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
Pricing
(+ private packages)$7/month
(+ team-based permissions)$7/user/month
Categories
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
- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Package Managers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia 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.
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GitHub company profile🗃️ 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.