Some Packages For Extending Laravel

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks for developing web applications. It offers a number of great features such as simple and fast routing, different ways for accessing relational databases, powerful dependency injection and much more. 

In this article we are going to share with you 15 excellent open-source PHP libraries for extending Laravel. You can easily include them in any Laravel project to add various utilities and improve your workflow.

Laravel Debugbar

A package for Laravel 5 which adds a developer toolbar for debugging the PHP and Laravel code of your app. There are lots of options which allow you to show all queries, get information about the current Route, show the currently loaded Views, and much more.

// All arguments will be dumped as a debug message
debug($var1, $someString, $intValue, $object);

// Measure render time or other events.
start_measure('render','Time for rendering');
stop_measure('render');
add_measure('now', LARAVEL_START, microtime(true));
measure('My long operation', function() {
    // Do something…
});