---
title: Modern Drupal Development with Composer
description: A lightning talk on how to use Composer to manage your Drupal projects.
type: Lightning talk
tags: ['meetups', 'phpsw', 'drupal', 'composer']
speakerdeck:
    id: 7a1358502526425a9cfd288f85fb32f3
    ratio: '1.37081659973226'
    url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/modern-drupal-development-with-composer
video:
    type: youtube
    id: Yi_FPI3xHwc
events:
    -
        name: PHP South West
        location: Bristol, UK
        url: https://phpsw.uk
        date: 2016-11-09
---

Building a Drupal application? You no longer need to download archives to add new modules or update core, or deal with Drupal specific tools to manage your codebase.

With Drupal "getting off the island" there has been an increase in the adoption of common PHP tools within the Drupal ecosystem.

In this lightning talk, I’ll show how to build a Drupal application using Composer for dependency management.