Installing and Managing Composer Packages
Composer is PHP's dependency manager, and it's how Laravel itself, along with virtually every third-party package, gets pulled into a project.
Installing a Package
composer require spatie/laravel-permissionThis adds the package to composer.json, downloads it into the vendor folder, and — for Laravel packages using auto-discovery — registers its service provider automatically.
Updating and Removing Packages
composer update spatie/laravel-permission
composer remove spatie/laravel-permissioncomposer.json and composer.lock
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| composer.json | Declares required packages and version constraints |
| composer.lock | Locks exact installed versions for consistency across environments |
Publishing Package Config and Assets
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Permission\PermissionServiceProvider"With package management covered, it's worth looking at a few packages that show up in almost every serious Laravel project.
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