Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\\Foundation\\Application::__construct() must be an instance of Illuminate\\Http\\Request

I am getting this error while migrating local laravel code to server. This issue is still unanswered on stackoverflow. I have run the commands :

composer update -vv
composer install
chmod -r 777 storage/
chmod -r 777 app/storage

The issue in detail is here:

Catchable fatal error:  Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\\Foundation\\Application::__construct() must be an instance of Illuminate\\Http\\Request, string given, called in /home/http://ift.tt/1QBDJ3Q on line 16 and defined in /home/http://ift.tt/1iOQq12 on line 109
Stack trace:
  1. {main}() /home/http://ift.tt/1QBDKoo
  2. require_once() /home/http://ift.tt/1iOQspF
  3. Illuminate\\Foundation\\Application->__construct() /home/http://ift.tt/1QBDKor

via Chebli Mohamed