I have installed the ballerina-tools-0.95.6 some days ago. It uses composer to provide a browser based developer tool. Now I try to install laravel. The instalation guide directs me to install composer and use that to install laravel. Now I have a confusion. Are both composers same or different? If both are different ,then what are the differences?What are the roles of these both composers?
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Abimaran Kugathasan
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Judging by the docs of Ballerina, they're different. Composer is a package manager, Balerina composer is an editor. – Nate Jan 24 '18 at 18:43
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Yes, I have got a better understanding. Thanks. – Kasthuriraajan Feb 01 '18 at 06:54
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They're two completely different things. :)
Ballerina and PHP are different programming languages. While both have tools called "composer", the Ballerina Composer is a browser-based Ballerina program manager, and the PHP Composer is a dependency manager for PHP.
Laravel is built in PHP and has absolutely nothing to do with Ballerina. The composer you want is available here: https://getcomposer.org
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Yes Ballerina is a completely different language which is optimized for integration. Ballerina Composer is a graphical editor and a source editor to program, run, debug ballerina programs. – Tharik Kanaka Jan 30 '18 at 06:05
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Yes, Ballerina composer helps to run its graphical editor and php composer is used to install laravel . I have got a clear picture. Thanks – Kasthuriraajan Feb 01 '18 at 06:57