---
title: Goodbye Drush Make. Hello Composer!
description: How to use Composer to manage your Drupal applications.
tags: ['meetup', 'drupal', 'composer']
speakerdeck:
  id: 1c1e0e129ab34816bd4c4edb5f6642c2
  ratio: '1.37081659973226'
  url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/goodbye-drush-make-hello-composer
video:
  type: youtube
  id: ZL2FtRTX9Y8
events:
  - event: drupal_bristol
    date: 2016-11-17
  - event: php_uk_18
    date: 2018-02-16
    time: '14:40 - 15:40'
    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