Composer is the most popular package management program for PHP, that offers a standard form for managing dependencies of PHP applications and needed libraries that your project relies on and it will manage (install/update) them for you easily.
Composer is a command-line program that installs dependencies and libraries for applications that are available on packagist.org, which is its main repository consist of available packages.
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