Laravel 8, Model factory class not found

Question

so when using the new model factories class introduced in laravel 8.x, ive this weird issue saying that laravel cannot find the factory that corresponds to the model. i get

Answer 1

You need to ensure that the namespace is the same: as shown below: otherwise this will screw you up big time. The name of the factory is the name of the model + Factory

e.g. app\models\User- will match to database/factories/UserFactory

finally ensure you run: composer dumpautoload