Laravel throws 'The bootstrap/cache directory must be present and writable' error after update

Question

I used \'composer update\', which updated a few packages. During the updating process the website still functions. However, after it says \'The compiled services file has be

Answer 1

Try executing the following commands in your project root directory

composer update

then do

composer dumpautoload

this will avoid the necessity of messing with cache files which may lead to whole new sort of issues