Illuminate\Console\Command not found when developing laravel 5.8 package

Question

I am developing a package for Laravel 5.8. When I try to create a console command that extends Illuminate\\Console\\Command then "composer dump-autoload" fails with error message:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\ptest>composer dump-autoload
    Generating optimized autoload files> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
    > @php artisan package:discover --ansi

       ReflectionException  : Class TestVendor\TestPackage\TestCommand does not exist

      at C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\ptest\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:790
        786|         if ($concrete instanceof Closure) {
        787|             return $concrete($this, $this->getLastParameterOverride());
        788|         }
        789|
      > 790|         $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
        791|
        792|         // If the type is not instantiable, the developer is attempting to resolve
        793|         // an abstract type such as an Interface or Abstract Class and there is
        794|         // no binding registered for the abstractions so we need to bail out.

      Exception trace:

      1   ReflectionClass::__construct("TestVendor\TestPackage\TestCommand")
          C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\ptest\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:790

      2   Illuminate\Container\Container::build("TestVendor\TestPackage\TestCommand")
          C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\ptest\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:667

I have tried to create the package by hand inside of C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ampps\\www\\ptest\\packages folder and I tried to use the packager https://github.com/Jeroen-G/laravel-packager but the result is identical in both cases.

TestCommand.php

<?php
namespace TestVendor\TestPackage;

    use Illuminate\Console\Command;

    class TestCommand extends Command {
        protected $signature = 'test:hello';
        protected $description = 'say hello';

        public function __construct()
        {
            parent::__construct();
        }

        public function handle()
        {
            $this->info("hello!");
        }
    }

TestServiceProvider.php

    <?php

    namespace TestVendor\TestPackage;

    use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

    class TestServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
    {
        public function boot()
        {
            if ($this->app->runningInConsole()) {
                $this->bootForConsole();
            }
        }

        public function register()
        {
            $this->mergeConfigFrom(__DIR__.'/../config/testpackage.php', 'testpackage');

            $this->app->singleton('testpackage', function ($app) {
                return new TestPackage;
            });
        }

        public function provides()
        {
            return ['testpackage'];
        }

        protected function bootForConsole()
        {
            // Registering package commands.
            $this->commands([TestCommand::class]);
        }
    }

When I execute the TestCommand.php file directly from command line it fails with the error message

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Illuminate\Console\Command' not found

I have checked other working packages inside "Vendor" folder and all have the same structure as my package. It seems as if autoloading does not work properly.

Answer 1

The "console" folder was outside of "src" folder. Therefore it could not be discovered.

Answer 2

remove vendor and node_modules folder then run following commands

composer update
npm install

it should work fine.