What are some best practices for configuring autoload in Composer for PHP projects?

When working with PHP projects, configuring autoload in Composer is essential for efficiently managing dependencies and ensuring that classes are loaded automatically. To set up autoload in Composer, you can define the autoload key in your composer.json file with the appropriate configuration for your project. This allows Composer to generate an optimized autoloader that maps class names to file paths, making it easier to include external libraries and components in your PHP code.

// composer.json
{
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "src/"
        }
    }
}