What are the Differences Between "php artisan dump-autoload" and "composer dump-autoload"?

I am pretty new to Laravel 4 and Composer. While I do Laravel 4 tutorials, I couldn't understand the difference between those two commands; php artisan dump-autoload and composer dump-autoload What's the difference between them?

3 Answers

Laravel's Autoload is a bit different:

1. It will in fact use Composer for some stuff

2. It will call Composer with the optimize flag

3. It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php

4. And also will find all of your Workbench packages and composer dump-autoload them, one by one.

php artisan dump-autoload was deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

composer dump-autoload

PATH vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php

• Composer dump-autoload won’t download a thing.
• It just regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project (autoload_classmap.php).
• Ideal for when you have a new class inside your project.
• autoload_classmap.php also includes the providers in config/app.php

php artisan dump-autoload

• It will call Composer with the optimize flag
• It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php