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Composer and Packagist: Dependency Management Becomes Standard PHP Infrastructure

Composer brought declarative dependency constraints, lockfiles and autoload generation to PHP projects, while Packagist became the default public repository connecting package metadata to source distributions.

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Yarn and the Lockfile-First Push for Deterministic JavaScript Installs

Yarn's 2016 launch made deterministic dependency installation, shared lockfiles, offline caching and monorepo workflows central concerns in the rapidly growing JavaScript package ecosystem.

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