Using Recipe-CMS as project base fails (install.php needs missing assets folder)

[albanyacademy]

Trying to create project via composer using this repo as a base (as suggested in the readme) fails to fully install necessary files.

composer create-project silverstripe/recipe-cms --prefer-dist .

Go to localhost/websitename (in this case project folder was callled contracts)

( ! ) Fatal error: Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: RecursiveDirectoryIterator::__construct(C:\wamp64\www\contracts\public\assets,C:\wamp64\www\contracts\public\assets): The system cannot find the file specified. (code: 2) in C:\wamp64\www\contracts\vendor\silverstripe\framework\src\Dev\Install\InstallRequirements.php on line 288
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1 | 0.0022 | 407152 | {main}( ) | ...\install.php:0
2 | 0.0057 | 408040 | include( 'C:\wamp64\www\contracts\vendor\silverstripe\framework\src\Dev\Install\install.php' ) | ...\install.php:15
3 | 0.0083 | 409080 | include( 'C:\wamp64\www\contracts\vendor\silverstripe\framework\src\Dev\Install\install5.php' ) | ...\install.php:25
4 | 0.2722 | 682280 | SilverStripe\Dev\Install\InstallRequirements->check( ) | ...\install5.php:69
5 | 0.2841 | 691544 | __construct ( ) | ...\InstallRequirements.php:288

Either the assets folder needs to be included as in the installer repo, or the readme should be updated to indicate this can't be used as a project base.

Workaround
just copying and pasting in the assets folder and its files from the installer repo mitigates this issue.

[maxime-rainville]

I confirmed the issue. dev/build normally creates that folder if it's missing. However, the installer doesn't appear to do it.

Could have a look to see if we can get the recipe to create the assets folder on composer install. Otherwise, we can try to get the installer.php to assets if it's missing.

Made a PR for it silverstripe/silverstripe-framework#8890