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By DEVSENSE (4 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages

All-in-One composer integration, quick actions, commands, automatic installation, tasks, code lenses, diagnostics, and composer.json IntelliSense.

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 18, 2026

Composer has 6,776,739 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #138 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings.

PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.

Installs
6,776,739
Official API · Oct 18, 2026
7-day growth
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Insufficient history
30-day growth
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Insufficient history
90-day growth
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Insufficient history
Rank
#138
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.60 / 5 from 10 ratings

About Composer

Composer for Visual Studio Code

Composer _"All-in-One"_ provides complete integration of composer and packagist into Visual Studio Code. The extension provides quick composer commands, IntelliSense for composer.json, code lenses, code actions, schema validation, browsing and searching packages, checking abandoned packages, running user scripts, and it extends VS Code with composer tasks.

To run commands and tasks, you only need php installed. The composer itself is downloaded automatically.

Composer.json Editor & IntelliSense

The composer.json editor is extended with smart actions, code lenses, tooltips, and IntelliSense to autocomplete packages and versions from _packagist.org_.

Completion of Package Names

Code completion searches packages and lists their names with detailed information including downloads, favorites, abandoned information, and description. There are also quick links to the package _home page_, package _source_ code, and _packagist page_.

Completion of Package Versions

Available minor versions are fetched from packagist listed in code completion after the required package name:

Tool-Tips

Installed package details are displayed in the tooltips.

Code Actions

Quickly update or remove package right from the editor, using the code actions:

Installed Version Inlay

Actual installed version is displayed conveniently next to the package required version:

Run-Script CodeLens

The "scripts" section of composer.json gets a small code-lens allowing to quickly run the corresponding script, right from the editor:

Diagnostics & Abandoned Packages

The extension watches for installed packages and checks if any of them isn't abandoned. Abandoned packages are listed in VS Code's problems view, strikethrough, and the tooltip shows the corresponding abandoned message:

Commands

Integrated commands work with the composer.json in the workspace root directory. If necessary, commands ask which workspace folder you're referring to. It allows quickly require, remove, or *search* for packages from packagist.org, and more.

The following commands are usually executed as a VSCode task, using php executable as configured in the Settings, and composer.phar downloaded automatically when necessary (so it is not necessary to install it by yourself).

composer: install

Runs the install command.

composer: update

Runs the update command.

composer: require

The composer: require command shows quick-pick with online search, and installs the selected package. The search displayed all the important information including packages description, downloads, and favorites.

composer: require-dev

Requires a dev package; this works the same as composer: require but the packageis installed as a development dependency.

composer: remove

Removes installed package or more packages from the project. The command shows quick pick with multi-selection allowing to choose the packages to be removed:

composer: create-project ...

Open an empty folder in VS Code, and create a new project from a composer package. The command shows quick-pick that searches online for available packages and invokes the create-project command for you:

composer: search ...

Search packages on _packagist.org_. Quickly browse through packages, read descriptions, open details on packagist.org or require the package right from the quick pick menu.

composer: run-script ...

Quickly run your composer script from command palette:

composer: check-platform-reqs

composer: update the internal composer.phar

The extension automatically downloads the latest composer installation, and uses it for all the tasks and commands. Run composer: update the internal composer to manually re-download the latest snapshot.

composer: about

Shows the about information.

composer: archive ...

Runs the archive command, and asks for arguments.

composer: clear-cache

Clear the internal composer cache.

composer: fund

Shows your required packages funding options.

composer: licenses

Shows summary of your required packages licenses.

composer: outdated

Shows list of outdated packages.

composer: reinstall

Runs the reinstall command.

Tasks

VS Code task that executes a composer command is a useful way of configuring and running composer. The composer.phar itself is automatically installed, and php executable is determined from Settings.

_Example:_

Schema Validation

The extension provides schema validation for composer.json files, maintained by @composer. This helps with the following:

• Correctness validation. • Tooltips and code completion for composer.json JSON elements.

Configuration

The extension automatically downloads composer.phar latest snapshot, and uses it. The location respects the Composer default installation path which can be changed by setting the COMPOSER_HOME environment variable.

| Setting | Description |

| php.executablePath | The value is used to determine php executable path for running composer commands. If not set, "php" is used by default.

In case, there is PHP Tools extension installed, composer commands are executed using php set with PHP Version Picker. |

Acknowledgments

• Referring to work by https://github.com/composer/composer, namely the JSON schema, and the part of the extension icon.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • codelens
  • commands
  • composer
  • json
  • packagist
  • php
  • php tools
  • schema
  • tools
  • validation

Where Composer sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,500 listings · 125 pages · page 7, #18 (overall #138)
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Programming Languages792 listings · 40 pages · page 3, #20 (overall #60)
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Snippets489 listings · 25 pages · page 2, #6 (overall #26)
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Linters252 listings · 13 pages · page 2, #4 (overall #24)
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Charts

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Adoption over time

Composer installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 6,776,739 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.ComposerInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days6,776,739installs6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8MJul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Composer installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 6,776,739 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

Composer installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.ComposerInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace6,776,739installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Composer installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

Composer VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #138 (by installs).ComposerVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#138current rank#136#137#138#139#140Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Composer VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #138 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

Composer ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 10 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.ComposerRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days10ratings99.51010.511Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Composer ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 10 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (3)
Recent installs observations for Composer
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DEVSENSE.composer-php-vscode. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.