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After installation, register dot-navigation in your project by adding the below line to your configuration aggregator (usually: config/config.php):
Dot\Navigation\ConfigProvider::class,Locate dot-navigation's distributable config file vendor/dotkernel/dot-navigation/config/autoload/navigation.global.php.dist and duplicate it in your project as config/autoload/navigation.global.php