Laravel 5.3 Filesystem store/putFile not working

I am having a problem using the filesystem in Laravel 5.3. I am trying to save a file to my local storage but when I call either $file->store('directory', 'local') or Storage::putFile('directory', $file) it stores in the correct location storage/app/directory/filename but the path returned by both functions does not include the path to the storage/app directory, just directory/filename.

My local storage driver config is as below:

'local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => storage_path('app'),
        ],

Obviously I could wrap the $path with the storage_path() helper but this doesn't seem right when reading the docs. http://ift.tt/2e6Grpw

Am I doing wrong or missing something?

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