A presentation at WordCamp Europe 2013 in in Leiden, Netherlands by Andrey Savchenko
Better Site Stacks with Composer
2 Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko • Rarst.net ♦ WPSE ( s.tk/wp ) • QueryPosts.com • Composer.Rarst.net
3 Composer — Dependency Manager Utility to consume code in projects and conventions to publish code for it. In open, flexible, and robust manner. getcomposer.org
4 “ Hobby — Profession …a lot of professionals are running professional sites like they are still hobbyists. Mark Jaquith #
5 “ Version Control Isn’t Everything F∗∗∗ing submodules. Daniel Bachhuber #
WordPress is 145K lines PHP code
7 Namespaces PHP >= 5.3 01. <?php 02. namespace Rarst\Fragment_Cache ; 03. class Plugin extends \Pimple { php.net/namespaces
8 PSR–0 Autoloading Standard Requirements that must be adhered to for autoloader interoperability. php-fig.org
9 “ Decoupled Frameworks …community growth in the coming years will mainly come from the adoption of the components. Fabien Potencier #
10 Installation • getcomposer.org/composer.phar • getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
11 WordPress Stack with Composer composer create-project rarst/install-test --repository-url= http://rarst.net
12 Sources • direct downloads • Subversion • Git (+ GitHub downloads) • Mercurial (+ Bitbucket downloads) also PEAR and local archives
13 packages.json Describes locations of packages. • Packagist.org • Satis ( github.com/composer/satis )
14 composer.json Contains information about package. composer.lock Captures precise state of project.
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Dependencies "require" : { "rarst/wordpress" : ">=3.6" } Also conflict and suggest
16 Current Challenges • bridge to core • access to repositories • asset management
solidify your sites
own your code
19 Composer All the Things! Questions? • @Rarst • The Loop ( s.tk/chat ) Rarst.net/slides/composer
This presentation explore gaps in WordPress tool chain for code dependencies, technical organization of whole-site projects, hosting and consuming PHP code. See why Composer dependency manager caught on like wildfire for these tasks in PHP ecosystem and how it can empower more robust and professional approaches to WordPress development.
Keep a better history of a project’s state, manage and easily share different contexts (production or development, stable or unstable), integrate multiple version control repositories with trivial ease, run and own your code hosting infrastructure. Composer all the things!
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