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Composer is not that much better though. It has (had?) the brain dead convention, that you may only refer to branches by prepending "dev" or "dev-", which itself can be a branch name and an organizational convention and thus the convention prescribed by composer gets in the way unnecessarily with what an organization may already have as convention.

So I am not sure it is better than npm, however, at least one does not have that split in package managers, which will additionally create friction in or between teams and projects.