title: Is there a place to get the laravel `vendor` folder in one spot?
body: <p>I realize that this is what composer is used for, but I don't particularly like it. It makes sense, but it annoys me that laravel5's github doesn't work out of the box because it's <code>vendor</code> directory is somewhat large and isn't necessarily laravel5, although laravel does require it. </p>
  
  <p>It also puzzles me why composer doesn't get it itself. </p>
  
  <p>I would expect to be able to </p>
  
  <p><code>git clone the_laravel5_github_url</code></p>
  
  <p><code>composer install</code> </p>
  
  <p>and be able to run as it seemed like you were able to do <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31530224/running-laravel-from-a-git-repo">at one time</a>, but for some reason now, the vendor directory isn't there. I feel like this makes laravel harder to set up as it isn't so obvious. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a place where someone can get an recent version of this? I find it disappointing that there is no mention of it on their readme and that you were able to do it before and still can't despite using <code>composer install</code>. </p>