Solution to 404s when deploying on the new Laravel Forge

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If you're pulling your hair out because you're trying to deploy your site on the new Forge and you get 404 on all your translated routes, here's what's going on:

The new Laravel Forge includes php artisan optimize by default in the deploy script now.

This package however is not compatible with route caching, which the optimize command does. See issue #927

For now until a fix is available, you will need to remove php artisan optimize from your deploy script and run php artisan optimize:clear to remove any existing route cache.

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@niels-numbers you may want to consider warning about this in the readme, I suspect a lot of people are going to run into this problem.