> I quite like the npm way of adding --save or --save-dev when installing a package to add it to the package.json file automatically. Composer does not do that,

> I quite like the npm way of adding --save or --save-dev when installing a package to add it to the package.json file automatically. Composer does not do that, in any way that I could find at least. You can install individual packages using the `require` command: composer require monolog/monolog:* http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require