Not everybody knows that Composer has a lot of plugins which makes our life easier. Here are some of my favorites.

• Versions Check — shows outdated packages.
• Changelogs — show changelog links of updated packages.
• Prestissimo — parallel packages loading.

More you can find in Awesome Composer list.
#composer #library

​​And Composer again. If you like to make all the packages in composer.json being sorted by their names and doing it every time by your hands then I've got a very good news for you. You can just add "sort-packages": true into the config section in the file and composer require will automatically sort your packages list alphabetically.

And if you prefer to load dists then you can also add a paramater for that. You can find more setting in the docs (https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md).

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