CodeIgniter 4 Playground

@triluminos That’s intentional! Playground is an example of project distribution using Composer for installation. From the README:

While CodeIgniter does not require it, using this repo also requires the use of Composer to install CodeIgniter as a dependency

When you run “composer install” it will download the framework into the appropriate directory. This allows Playground to be distributed independent of a specific version of the framework. If you want to use Playground (or other CI4 apps) without Composer you may but you will need to download the framework separately and update the Paths.