You don't, that's just the quickest/easiest way to get started. If you read slightly further, you'll get to the section for people who already have the dependen

You don't, that's just the quickest/easiest way to get started. If you read slightly further, you'll get to the section for people who already have the dependencies installed directly: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x#installation-via-composer https://laravel.com/docs/8.x#installation-via-composer