---
title: Goodbye Drush Make. Hello Composer!
description: How to use Composer to manage your Drupal applications.
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  ratio: "1.37081659973226"
  url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/goodbye-drush-make-hello-composer
video:
  type: youtube
  id: ZL2FtRTX9Y8
events:
  - name: Drupal Bristol
    location: Bristol, UK
    url: https://www.drupalbristol.org.uk
    date: 2016-11-17
  - name: PHP UK Conference 2018
    location: London, UK
    date: 2018-02-16
    time: "14:40 - 15:40"
    url: https://www.phpconference.co.uk
    joindin: https://joind.in/talk/650ab
---

One of the main outcomes of Drupal 8 was “getting off the island” with third-party code included in core and adopting modern best practices from the wider PHP ecosystem - including [Composer][1], PHP’s dependency manager.

Included to manage core’s dependencies, it has also gained traction in the contrib space with the creation of the Drupal Composer project, and the Drupal Packagist and now native endpoints on Drupal.org exposing contrib project metadata.

In this session, I'll show how to fully manage a Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 website including contributed modules and themes and external libraries with Composer.

[1]: https://getcomposer.org