Is it possible to use Laravel Facades with Illuminate Database Standalone?

I'm following this README and am curious if it's possible to get the following to work:

$capsule = new Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager;

$capsule->addConnection([
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost',
    'database'  => 'database',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => 'password',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
]);

$capsule->setAsGlobal();
$capsule->bootEloquent();

# can Facades be used like this somehow?
var_dump(DB::connection()->getPdo());
var_dump(Hash::make('hash'));

I get the following error which is expected because the scripts not loading any Facades but I'm not sure how to tweak things to work:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'DB' not found

I've also tried out the accepted answer here but still no luck (not even sure I'm using it correctly?)..

$container = new Illuminate\Container\Container();
Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade::setFacadeApplication($container);
$container->singleton('db', 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB');
class_alias('Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB', 'DB');

Which gives me the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::connection()

Any suggestions? Or is it just that Facades cannot be used with Illuminate Database standalone?

via Chebli Mohamed