Why do I have to run “composer dump-autoload” command to make migrations work in laravel?

Question

I have built some migration classes in my application to create the tables I need, but I keep getting errors. I need to run this command:

composer dump-autoloa

Answer 1

Short answer: classmaps are static while PSR autoloading is dynamic.

If you don't want to use classmaps, use PSR autoloading instead.