Laravel 5 Unable to detect application namespace

Question

I\'m new to Laravel 5 and trying to understand it bit by bit and at the moment I\'m really confused with error messages. MVC is new thing to me.

What I\'m trying to

Answer 1

What caused this for me was having lines commented with //. The // can be on its own line or at the end of the line. Also having comma at the end can cause this.

Removing the comments solved this. And/or removing the extra ending comma.

The error happens for "composer update", and artisan commands such as "php artisan make:controller TestsController --resource", or "php artisan make:model Test"