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#  Using Composer with CiviCRM + Drupal 

 CiviCon CiviCRM Drupal Development 

 

 

 At CiviCon, Skvare’s Mark Hanna shared practical tips for managing CiviCRM and Drupal with Composer. Composer is a dependency management tool that simplifies the process of fetching, updating, and organizing the many packages that make up a Drupal + CiviCRM site. Instead of downloading and placing files manually, Composer keeps everything aligned across development, staging, and production environments.

## **Highlights from the Talk**

- **Why Composer matters:** Drupal and CiviCRM rely on many packages, often sharing dependencies like Symfony. Composer ensures compatible versions are installed and reduces duplication.
- **Getting started:** Define package versions in `composer.json`, then lock them in `composer.lock` so environments stay consistent.
- **Composer template:** Mark shared a prototype template for Drupal 11, kept up to date and including useful modules such as CiviCRM Entity, CiviCRM Drush, Form Builder, and patched Webform CiviCRM.
- **Plugins that help:** The CiviCRM Asset Plugin places CSS/JS files where Drupal expects them, while the Extensions Plugin can fetch and install CiviCRM extensions.
- **Upgrade support:** Tools like Drupal Lenient allow developers to test modules on newer versions of Drupal even if official support is not declared.

## **Watch the Presentation**

At Skvare, we help organizations make the most of open-source tools like Drupal and CiviCRM. If you’d like to explore how Composer can simplify your project workflows, [contact us today](/contact).

 

 

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- [Drupal](/tags/drupal)
- [Development](/tags/development)