The document discusses Composer, a dependency management tool for PHP projects. It explains that Composer allows developers to declare dependencies in a composer.json file and have them automatically installed. Some key points made include:
- Composer is not a new concept, similar tools exist for Node.js and Ruby
- Composer addresses some limitations of PEAR for dependency management
- To use Composer, install it locally and define dependencies in composer.json
- Running 'composer install' will download and install all listed dependencies
- Composer downloads dependencies from Packagist, a central repository
- Developers can publish their own packages to Packagist for others to use