title: Restoring vendor directory in a laravel 5.1 project with composer
body: <p>I rebuilt my vm development and cloned my laravel project from its repo. When I tried to hit the site, I got the fatal error that the <code>vendor</code> directory was missing in the project root. Sure enough, <code>vendor</code> is listed in the <code>.gitignore</code>. </p>
  
  <p>I've looked over the installation instructions, and I don't see where it explicitly says how to build the vendor directory. I'm new to this, so I'm supposing it's done with composer (I started this site about a month ago and my recollection of the installation is a little fuzzy). </p>
  
  <p>How do I build laravel's vendor directory with composer?</p>