Laravel 5 API Routes Returning 404 to Frontend

I'm trying to start a new project in Laravel 5, and I'm running into some routing issues. I used Laravel 4 before for something similar, but I'm new to laravel 5.

What I'm trying to do is create a demo application with an AngularJS frontend, and Laravel as a backend server and API for data. I have gulp build my frontend into laravel/public/app, so my structure looks like this:

laravel
 - app/
 - frontend-src/
 - public/
 -- app/
 --- index.php
 --- js/
 --- css/
 --- views/

I configured Laravel to look for views starting in public/app like this in laravel/config/view.php:

'paths' => array(__DIR__.'/../public/app'),

Then I configured my routes to load the Angular index page for '/' and a Route Group for my API calls like this:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('index');
});

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api'), function() {

    Route::resource('projects', 'ProjectController');

});

I'm serving it in development by using the artisan server and running it with php artisan serve - and this works fine. The index page loads, my Angular application is visible, and the homepage looks correct.

However, when I added a service call to GET /api/projects in the home page, the server responds with a 500 error

GET http://localhost:8000/api/projects 500 (Internal Server Error)

At first I thought I named something wrong or the routes were not setup, so I ran the command php atisan route:list - but the routes look fine:

+--------+----------+------------------------------+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+------------+
| Domain | Method   | URI                          | Name                 | Action                                         | Middleware |
+--------+----------+------------------------------+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+------------+
|        | GET|HEAD | /                            |                      | Closure                                        |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | api/projects                 | api.projects.index   | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@index   |            |
|        | POST     | api/projects                 | api.projects.store   | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@store   |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | api/projects/create          | api.projects.create  | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@create  |            |
|        | DELETE   | api/projects/{projects}      | api.projects.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@destroy |            |
|        | PATCH    | api/projects/{projects}      |                      | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@update  |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | api/projects/{projects}      | api.projects.show    | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@show    |            |
|        | PUT      | api/projects/{projects}      | api.projects.update  | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@update  |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | api/projects/{projects}/edit | api.projects.edit    | App\Http\Controllers\ProjectController@edit    |            |
+--------+----------+------------------------------+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+------------+

In the ProjectController, the index method is only one line:

return Response::json(array('success' => true));

Does anyone see what I'm missing, or what my /api routes would not not working? Thanks for your time, all!

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