Laravel move project from Ubuntu Server to Local XAMPP

I have a Laravel project that I copied from my Ubuntu server and now I am trying to run it my local machine (XAMPP on Mac) I have been struggling with this for a few days now and I feel like I am going insane.

When I paste my project in XAMPP htdocs folder I get this error:

View [welcome] not found

Which php artisan cache:clear makes that go away, then I get this error:

The bootstrap/cache directory must be present and writable

Then I do this, php artisan cache:clear which gives me a new error:

Class view does not exist

Then after that no matter what I do either in terminal or viewing the web browser, I always get the error

Class view does not exist

Then I have tried composer update still the same error.....what am I doing wrong?

This has been a nightmare.

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