Deployment does not upload Composer vendor directory

[Jan Henkes]

I created this deployment pipeline (Laravel project). It runs composer successfully, but it doesn't upload my vendor directory:

image: php:7.1.29

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        caches:
          - composer
        script:
          - apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip
          - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
          - composer install --no-dev
    - step:
        name: Deploy
        deployment: production
        script:
          - pipe: atlassian/sftp-deploy:0.5.3
            variables:
              USER: 'username'
              SERVER: 'hostname'
              REMOTE_PATH: '/path/'
              LOCAL_PATH: '${BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR}/*'

Could it be because the vendor dir is in my .gitignore file? And how could I solve this?

[Josh_Balduff]

Have you found an answer? I have the same issue.