also , i tried deleting vendor directory and clearing composer cache.

Then i did a composer update and got this:

Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Foundation\Application::detectEnvir
onment() must be an instance of Closure, array given, called in C:\UniServerZ\www\sicktrac
k\bootstrap\environment.php on line 18 and defined in C:\UniServerZ\www\sicktrack\vendor\l
aravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php on line 299
Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an erro
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happyDemon said:

It's still under development, lots of things got changed under the hood. The best way to go about this is by extracting your own app code and place it in a fresh install of L5.

Yeap it seems legit...I suppose that this will not be the case after 5.0 comes out correct?

I think so, it won't be too long until the release though.

I dove in early too, to my regret, every update requires me to do this, well, could've been expected from a dev-release