Is the vendor directory needed in a production environment?

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Hi,

I am using bedrock and deploying via bash script / rsync to a shared hosting.
I was just wondering wether the /vendor folder is needed in a production environment or if I can add it to my rsync ignore list.
At first glance I thought “no, I don’t need composer and this stuff in my production environment”, but then I saw there is also the wp-password-bcrypt plugin in there.
And also /vender/autoload.php is called from wp_config.php.
So I’m a bit confused which files I need just to run wordpress and which are needed only for package management.
I am also asking because some of the files (e.g.) the autoload.php just changed after “composer update”.

thanks,

daniel

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Yes vendor directory is needed. It contains vendored deps that your app needs to run, as well as the autoloader.

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