Class 'Laravel\Spark\Providers\SparkServiceProvider' not found

You need to run composer install first before you can start with your project. This command will download all packages for your project, whcih you can find in yourcomposer.json file.

@bobbybouwmann Yes I already ran that command, composer install, npm install, gulp, php artisan migrate --seed.

Did you check if the file and class is there?

Then you know whether it is missing or just not recognizing it.

Very same thing happens for my brand new install of spark/laravel :(

Well.. you are not alone :) Just ran into same issue.. can't figure out what went wrong

Alright so what was happening with me. I went to vendor/laravel/spark and the folder is empty. I think there is supposed to be some kind of symlink here to the spark folder in the project root but honestly I am not a 100% sure how to do it.

So in : project_root/vender/laravel/spark -> project _root/spark

So i was able to do cp spark/. vender/laravel/spark/

And it all started working again but I dont think this is correct.

It's a permissions error for us sometimes, too. This is due to the fact that the spark repo is a paid for repository and requires rights that composer doesn't handle. If you bought spark, it should be installed in the project root (by the Spark installer).

Check to see if vendor/laravel/spark exists but it's an empty folder. If so, delete it and run composer install again.

You should have this in your composer.json under the "require" node:

"laravel/spark": "*@dev",

Then under "repositories" node you have a

"url": "./spark"

This configuration allows composer to install laravel/spark from the repository url ./spark in the local project.

composer global upgrade, first.

rm -rf vendor

composer update

Job is done!

I got this problem when I had an old installation from 2017 of spark-installer in my path. Zapped that, re-installed, fixed my path and it went smoothly.

Migrating an installation meant the symlink from ./vendor/laravel/spark-aurelius to ./spark was now just a file! I removed the file and recreated the symlink with

cd ./vendor/laravel
rm -f  spark-aurelius
 ln -s ../../spark spark-aurelius