Hi ChefBrett.

The facade is automatically added by the Service Provider. It's binded to the IoC container so don't expect to see a line referencing the facade withing the config/app.php ;). Anyway, if you already used the link generation functions that means it's been properly added.

If you don't add any asset with the add() function before calling the link generation functions is normal they don't generate anything.

The line 'autoload' => array('css','js'), will not have any effect unless you have previously defined two collections named 'css' and 'js'. Note every asset you add that has no extension is supposed to be a collection.

I hope I was helpful.