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What is Packagist?

Packagist is the default Composer package repository. It lets clients find packages and lets Composer know where to get the code from. Composer can be used to manage your project or libraries' dependencies.

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Packagist is the default Composer package repository. It lets clients find packages and lets Composer know where to get the code from. Composer can be used to manage your project or libraries' dependencies.


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Alberto G.
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Alberto G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It is the most popular for PHP and Composer"
Packagist is a very nice tool to upload your open-source projects so others can install, use, and upgrade them easily from the terminal. It has an ...
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5.0 out of 5
"Vital for our PHP workflow"
The speed and reliability of packagist means it is always dependable.
Benjamín V.
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Benjamín V.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Essential service for PHP developers"
How easy they make it to publish repositories to later use them with Composer.
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Alberto G.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

Packagist is a very nice tool to upload your open-source projects so others can install, use, and upgrade them easily from the terminal. It has an incredible big amount of packages for you to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

I have nothing to say against Packagist. It is beneficial when you want to install many open-source packages in your PHP projects. You don't have to configure too much; just run composer install, and that's it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Packagist helps me install the open-sources packages by executing "composer install" in the terminal. It is also helpful to make my own projects open to the world so they can be installed by other people as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anjali N.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

We are using Pakagist for caching & mirroring our code repositories. Packagist provides us with features such as fast installation & deployment with detailed documentation as well. It also provides a Web GUI to manage & control the repository configurations & update the packages as well. We have integrated Microsoft Teams for receiving the security alerts such as vulnerabilities & threats. We have integrated our code repositories Github & Bitbucket. It also provides Versioning options so that we can manage the package dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

We have been using Packagist from past one year & we have not faced as such any issues with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Packagist:

Packagist provides private composer packages & fast component deployment that provides high redundancy & high availability. I highly recommend Packagist for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Packagist resolved one of the significant concerns that is security alerts & vulnerabilities & it also provides us real-time monitoring & alerts on our Microsoft Teams group & slack as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Packagist?

The speed and reliability of packagist means it is always dependable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

The UI is starting to look very dated, some UX updates are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use private packagist to monitor security vulnerabilites in our packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamín V.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

How easy they make it to publish repositories to later use them with Composer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

Sometimes (this used to be before) synching between things like github/bitbucket/gitlab used to fail from time to time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

All of our repositories push to packagist to then be consumed via composer. This has speed up the manual processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pradeep  F.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

First, when I using this software as a support for my PHP Projects I felt that it's easy to include my libraries to this and add them to my PHP projects using composer.

This has multiple services and it's amazing to use and very easy to use this software.

I want to say that the search bar is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

I did not like its UI because it's looking an old website.

This software is expensive.

delay of package updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Packagist:

I can recommend this to beginners where they want support to PHP Libraries but the price is high.

worth of trying and i can say this is only getting better and better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a Package manager, I am using this very frequently to manage PHP Packages.

the main use is to share Liabraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ushan Sameera W.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

Packagist provides professional support and web-based management of packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

I don't like the logo and the theme color, it's not a big deal but it's my personal preference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Packagist:

It has professional support so you got this opportunity to do your projects easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

To Do the projects by define the packagist's repository Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sneha M.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

It is very easy to use and one of best PHP package manager available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

The only thing I do not like is that it is quite expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Packagist:

Any PHP dependencies can be easily dealt with using this tool and I highly recommend this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

For the PHP programming language, any packaging purpose can be very well dealt with using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankush P.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

It's easy to use

Fast and has good accuracy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

The thing that I disliked is It can be expensive for young startups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

To manage private composer repository and love the way it gets integrated with GitHub, GitLab, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Packagist?

Very good to manage your private packages with an easy interface, especially to use it in another project. It has some nice features like proxying the public packagist.org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

The price is quite expensive for our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it in my daily work to manage my dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alen K.
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What do you like best about Packagist?

I use packagist all the time, what I like about it is that it allows me to deploy my libs and easily include them in my php projects with composer, I have written multiple php http clients for microservices and it's amazing, easily include them in my other projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Packagist?

There's not much that I dislike about packagist, maybe the front end is a bit outdated and clunky but if it works, no need to fix Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Packagist:

Keep using it, it only gets better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Packagist solving and how is that benefiting you?

providing sharable libraries is the main thing really, it helps keeping everything in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.