Create a composer.json file for a module in Magento

Even though we won’t be distributing this module (or, maybe we will be?), we need to create a composer.json file for it. Magento uses this file for various dependency tracking purposes, as we can define hard & soft dependencies for our module in this file in the future.

Let’s create a composer.json in the root of our module folder.

Within it, we will create a name property, and this follows the format of vendorname/module-modulename. We’ll also add a description property saying “Just another blog module for Magento 2”.

Let’s create another property named require. This is h...