Laravel 5 App Skeleton

ApplicationsServiceProvider.php

<?php namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Request;
use View;
use App;

abstract class ApplicationsServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function register()
    {
        $this->registerApp();
    }

    public function boot()
    {
        $this->setViewNamespace();
        $this->includeRoutes();
        $this->bootApp();
    }

    private function setViewNamespace()
    {
        View::addNamespace($this->viewNamespace, $this->getPath('views'));
    }
    
    private function includeRoutes()
    {
        require $this->getPath('routes.php');
    }

    private function getPath($endpoint)
    {
        return base_path("apps/{$this->application}/{$endpoint}");
    }

    abstract protected function registerApp();
    abstract protected function bootApp();
}

ExampleAppServiceProvider.php

<?php namespace Apps\ExampleApp;

use App\Providers\AppsServiceProvider;
use App;

// Dont forget to register this with config/app.php 
class ExampleAppServiceProvider extends AppsServiceProvider
{
    public $application = 'ExampleApp';
    public $viewNamespace = 'example';

    protected function registerApp()
    {
    }

    protected function bootApp()
    {
    }
}

Folder structure

app/
apps/ <--- new folder. Put your "app bundles" here, PSR-4 it as Apps
    ExampleApp/
      Controllers/
      Middleware/
      Requests/
      views/
      ExampleAppServiceProvider.php
      routes.php
bootstrap/
config/
..etc../

routes.php

<?php
Route::group([
  'prefix' => 'example'
  'namespace' => 'Apps\ExampleApp\Controllers'
], function() {
    
  Route::get('whatever', 'FooController@bar');
}