Laravel 5.1 Packages
Here are the most packages that I use for a typical fresh build of Laravel 5.1 :
Laravel Generators [documentation]
"pingpong/generators": "~2.0",
Laravel Collective: HTML and Form builders [documentation]
"laravelcollective/html": "5.2.*",
Laravel Debugbar: integrate PHP Debug Bar with Laravel [documentation]
"barryvdh/laravel-debugbar": "^2.0",
Whoops: error handler