DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Composer Tools and Frameworks for Drupal

This talk explores the critical role of Composer as the primary PHP dependency management tool, highlighting its increasing adoption in Drupal projects. The speaker discusses how open-source libraries from Packagist have become essential, particularly for Drupal contributed modules. Attendees will learn about innovative practices in managing project code using Composer, including tools such as Drupal Packagist, Drupal Tangler, and the Composer Patches Plugin. The session also includes insights into differences in Composer usage between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8, and demonstrates setting up a Vagrant-based development environment for Drupal 7 while covering workflows for module installation, library additions, and code deployment.