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 Composer - Dependency Management for PHP
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-Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects.
+Composer helps you declare, manage, and install dependencies of PHP projects.
 
 See [https://getcomposer.org/](https://getcomposer.org/) for more information and documentation.