Theme Layout broken - Laravel 5.4

[John Hearfield]

I can't seem to get the Theme::setLayout($layout) to work

Theme::setLayout always returns false, so I cant do @extend($theme_layout)

File structure:
/laravel/public/themes/standard/views/layouts/default.blade.php

Inside Controller.php

public function __construct() {
        $theme = config('themes.active');
        \Theme::setActive($theme);
        dd(\Theme::setLayout('layouts.default'));
}

I've also tried extend('standard::layouts.default') and it throws

ErrorException thrown with message "No hint path defined for [standard]. (View: /laravel/app/Modules/Dashboard/Resources/Views/dashboard.blade.php)"

[Niko Craft]

hi did you manage to get this working?