Target class 'Uploadcare' does not exist - laravel-9

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Executed:
composer require uploadcare/uploadcare-php
I can find the library in vendor/uploadcare.
Then added to config/app.php:
'providers' => [
App\Providers\UploadcareServiceProvider::class,
]
and
'aliases' => Facade::defaultAliases()->merge([
'Uploadcare' => App\Facades\Uploadcare::class,
])->toArray(),
Then in App/Facades folder, created this file:
<?php
namespace App\Facades;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
class Uploadcare extends Facade {
protected static function getFacadeAccessor(){
return 'uploadcare';
}
}
This file is successfully referenced in config/app.php according to Visual Studio code.
Then in App/Providers I created UploadcareServiceProvider.php file:
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use App\Uploadcare\UploadcareConfiguration;
use Uploadcare\Interfaces\ConfigurationInterface;
class UploadcareServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
public function boot()
{
$this->mergeConfigFrom(__DIR__.'/../../config/uploadcare.php', 'uploadcare');
}
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind(ConfigurationInterface::class, function ($app) {
return new UploadcareConfiguration();
});
$this->app->bind(Uploadcare\Api::class, function ($app) {
$config = $app->make(ConfigurationInterface::class);
return new Uploadcare\Api($config);
});
}
}
This file is successfully referenced in config/app.php according to Visual Studio code, it loads config/uploadcare.php which I have with the following (I redacted my public and private key):
<?php
return [
'public_key' => env('my-public-key'),
'private_key' => env('my-private-key'),
];
Then I created a controller to see whether I can successfully load a list of files form Uploadcare:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Uploadcare\Api;
use App\Facades\Uploadcare;
use App\Uploadcare\UploadcareConfiguration;
use Uploadcare\Interfaces\ConfigurationInterface;
class UploadcareController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
$api = Uploadcare::Api(config('uploadcare.public_key'), config('uploadcare.public_secret'));
$files = $api->files()->all();
return $files;
}
}
I call the controller using this route:
Route::get('/uploadcare', [UploadcareController::class, 'index']);
When visiting example.com/uploadcare I get the following error:
Target class [uploadcare] does not exist.
When I change the code in the controller to the following, I get the same error:
$files = Uploadcare::File()->getFileList();
When I hover Uploadcare in Visual Studio it successfully references the Facade.