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Re:Laravel Spark 1.0 is now available by vlucas on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:08PM (#11529860)
What you described is literally the same process. No need to arbitrarily bash other programming languages or ecosystems.

PHP:

(1) Install PHP (2) Install Composer (3) Run 'composer install' to download dependencies

Node:

(1) Install Node.js (2) Install npm (3) Run 'npm install' to download dependencies

Re:Laravel Spark 1.0 is now available by Blaine0002 on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:17PM (#11529956)
Well he did refer to most shared hosting which do usually come with php already installed, and you may not have sudo. installing composer is simply curling a phar file, or you could even bundle it into your repository if you want to, im really not sure what to tell you.