Here’s the list of packages that make Laravel development even easier.

Development

PHPUnit – require-dev or require in composer.json

"phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0" 

and then run tests in cli directly from installed binary:

vendor/bin/phpunit

PHPSpec – require-dev or require in composer.json

"phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1" 

and then similar to PHPUnit, run the tests using binary in vendor/bin

vendor/bin/phpspec desc App/Test

Profiling / debugging – laravel-debugbar

IDE auto-completion / PHPDoc – laravel-ide-helper

Faker – use to seed Database with realistic Data.
require-dev or require in composer.json

"fzaninotto/faker": "1.4.*@dev"

and then just get an instance

$faker = Faker\Factory::create(); 

and use it to fake just about anything.
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