Laravel 5.8: A facade root has not been set after homestead restart

Question

so I\'m trying to get into Laravel and this is my first time using Vagrant, so here\'s my problem:

I\'ve worked through the Laravel Homestead introduction and set up

Answer 1

Ran into this issue because the default laravel/homestead box installed via vagrant is set to v8.0.0-alpha2 which seems to be very broken. You will need to reinstall the box and delete the current box.

Reference: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/issues/1178

cd ~/Homestead
vagrant destroy
vagrant box remove laravel/homestead --box-version=8.0.0-alpha2
vagrant box add laravel/homestead --box-version=7.2.1
vagrant up