I created a laravel middleware with this code:

<?php

namespace AppHttpMiddleware;

use Closure;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;
use SymfonyComponentHttpFoundationResponse;
use AppContainersModalsModelsModal;

class ModalsMiddleware
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  Closure(IlluminateHttpRequest): (SymfonyComponentHttpFoundationResponse)  $next
     */
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next, string $modalNames): Response
    {
        $modals = explode(',', $modalNames);
        foreach ($modals as $modalName) {
            $modal = Modal::where('slug', $modalName)->first();
            if (!$modal->enabled) {
                abort(404);
            }
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

Then I updated Kernel.php:

**
     * The application's route middleware.
     *
     * These middleware may be assigned to groups or used individually.
     *
     * @var array<string, class-string|string>
     */
    protected $routeMiddleware = [
       ...,
       'modals' => AppHttpMiddlewareModalsMiddleware::class,
    ];

And for my route group I added the following: 'middleware' => ['auth:api', 'modals:AModalName']

Then I ran:
php artisan optimize && php artisan config:cache && php artisan cache:clear && php artisan config:clear && composer dump-autoload
And stoped serve then I re-ran the app

However I had this error:

"message": "Target class [modals] does not exist.",
    "exception": "Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException",

How can I fix that?