How do I disable filp/whoops package in Laravel 5.5 without removing it?

Question

Laravel 5.5 app. Originally 5.3. I installed the filp/whoops package as per the upgrade guide, but now I want to disable it, as I believe it is causing "out of memory" errors on my Homestead machine whenever I encounter an error, which is really annoying because all I see is "allowed memory size of XXXXXX bytes exhausted" instead of the real error, which is usually a parse error of some sort. I do NOT want to change the memory available to PHP as it matches what I have on my production server.

Is there any simple way to disable this package without removing it?

Answer 1

Try to add into app/Exceptions/Handler.php the following method:

protected function renderExceptionWithWhoops(Exception $e)
{
    return $this->renderExceptionWithSymfony($e, config('app.debug'));
}

This will override default implementation and should cause rendering exception without Whoops package.