Laravel package development - Target class [ControllerName] does not exist - php

Question

I'm following a tutorial on how to create laravel packages.
I'm using Laravel v8.42.1 (PHP v7.4.3) and jetstream package.
I'm stuck on creating a controller for my package, I always get following error when trying to connect to my url via the laraval app (<base-url/playground):
Target class [TestVendor\TestPackage\Http\Controllers\PlaygroundController] does not exist.
The TestVendor\TestPackage\src\routes.php is recognized by the main application:
use TestVendor\TestPackage\Http\Controllers\PlaygroundController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
Route::get('/playground', [PlaygroundController::class, 'index']);
And is loaded from my ServiceProvider class:
$this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__.'/resources/views', 'playground');
loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__.'/routes.php');
My namespacing is also normally correctly written in the composer.json of my package:
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"TestVendor\\TestPackage\\": "src/"
}
},
And I have my PlaygroundController in src/Http/Controllers/PlaygroundController.php:
namespace TestVendor\TestPackage\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
class PlaygroundController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
return view('playground::hello');
}
}
The view is also in the right package.
I'm using https://github.com/Jeroen-G/laravel-packager to scaffold my packages.
Did multiple composer auto-load and composer updates.
It seems my controller is not recognized in the main application, I think somewhere my name spacing is not correct?
I already had a look at:
Target class controller does not exist - Laravel 8
Solution did not work
Target class does not exist. problem in laravel 8
Solution did not work

Answer 1

You have namespaced your controller as:
namespace TestVendor\TestPackage\Http\Controllers;
In the line above though you say:
And I have my PlaygroundController in src/Http/PlaygroundController.php:
Unless that is a typo, you need to add a Controllers directory underneath Http and put your PlaygroundController in there:
src/Http/Controllers/PlaygroundController.php
For psr-4 autoloading, your folder structure and namespaces should mimic each other.