Ok here is an attempt to list all the decent laravel packages I've come across. Those suffixed with (*)
are used across most if not all my applications.
https://github.com/php-school/cli-menu
https://github.com/nunomaduro/laravel-console-menu
https://github.com/sebastiaanluca/laravel-route-model-autobinding
https://github.com/kitetail/zttp - simplified guzzle
https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-server-timing - server timing, injects data into response