For years, PHP has struggled with dependencies. Third party libraries may do great things, but if they're a pain to leverage who's going to bother?

Enter Composer, one of the key enablers of the New PHP World Order. Composer is a tool to maintain, track, and manage dependencies in a consistent, predictable, and fun way. More than that, though, it's a platform for enabling more cross-project sharing than ever before; even sharing your own code with others.

This session will introduce Composer and its related tools. It will discuss how Composer is being used in Drupal 8, and how to leverage it for your own contrib modules in both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.