I already HATE Laravel, and I haven't even got it working yet. I have now wasted 3 days on this bullshit

Looks like a composer / namespacing issue

You're just doing it wrong mate. Keep at it, stick with their documentation and it will soon become second nature. 👍🏻

I have tried almost everything from their documentation. I have tried other people's working templates. Sometimes it almost works, and other times it's completely broken

Looks like a Microsoft issue 😂

Nah, on a serious note, Laravel is awesome and it's easily setup when developing on unix based environments. When I used to have a Windows PC, before upgrading to Ubuntu, I installed virtual box and and shared the directory of the Laravel app between the guest and host environment.

Besides it's recommended to run the app in a similar development stack locally as intended on production. Unless, are you intending to run the app in production on a Windows server?

No it's not! It's an awesome framework...just go for a walk and calm down!!

It's not running on Windows in this instance. It's vagrant

Laracasts are helpful, have had no issue setting it up on windows 10

Something is very wrong because even on windows (using xampp) latavel works like a charm. Once you get to know the framework, you won't think of using any other.

Don't loose hope yet! Its lovely and the community is pretty awesome too!
"Everything is difficult before it's easy!"

I fixed my issue by starting all over and using homestead. Problem with that was that I hadn't created an ssh-key yet, and neither the documentation nor most tutorials / guides include that information. But it works.
I created a small application in a few hours and I now see why people love Laravel

Admittedly @devs - parts of the documentation are assumptions that you just... know to do something in addition. It's a bit silly on that front, but it's really not geared to newer developers (what I personally would consider, less than 3 years commercial experience) - keep at it!

@thatcoolguyrob Well... I actually have quite a few years of experience, so it's a bit embarrassing that it took me this long to figure it out, but to my defence, I recently reinstalled my pc, and didn't think about it because I thought I'd already done it ;)

- not as a php programmer though; that's fairly new to me