Can't use models within controllers

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Hello!

When trying to use the package in controller a file not found exception is raised:

file_get_contents(vendor/mledoze/countries/dist/countries.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I believe this is due to Laravel loading all classes from within ./public folder (within public/index.php) where Composer autoload is triggered

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

We can confirm this by firing getcwd() within the package like such:

dd(getcwd());
$database = \json_decode(\file_get_contents('vendor/mledoze/countries/dist/countries.json'), true);

which outputs ./public

The workaround is to do:

\file_get_contents(base_path().'/vendor/mledoze/countries/dist/countries.json')

Cheers!