Why am I getting the "Class 'Artisan' not found" error?

Question

I am currently using artisan with laravel and I get the following error if I try to run any command with artisan (such as php artisan optimize):

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException] Class 'Artisan' not found

I haven't seen this error anywhere on the internet and frankly am confused that it has showed up. I haven't altered any of the the core code and I have tried composer dump-autoload with no success. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Inside config/app.php ensure you have an alias set up like so:

return [
    'aliases' => [
        // ...

        'Artisan' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,

        // ...
    ]
];