Using Composer with Opencart

If you haven’t already heard of it, Composer is a dependency manager for php and has really made an impact in the PHP development community. It brings the same advantages as Node’s NPM and Ruby’s Gem package managers to the PHP world. Lots of other frameworks like Laravel use it to manage their core files and plugins. There are also other projects to try and bring Composer management to products like Wordpress and with just a little modification we can try to bring some of these same advantages to Opencart.

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The process behind Hoisin.scss – our own front-end development framework

As part of Cyber-Duck’s R&D culture, we constantly evaluate emerging technology trends, to optimise our workflow and be prepared for the future. So, we developed Hoisin.scss, a simple, responsive mini framework, which standardises the work of our front-end team, while giving us full, creative control to tailor work to each project. Here, I will explain the process behind the framework’s creation, and the advantages it brings.

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