Laravel, Personally.

This is list of things I do/use when building project with Laravel.

• Use git for version control
• Use repository layer
• Use interface
• Setup BaseModel that extends eloquent model
• Use postman to test API
• Use bower for fast front-end deployment
• Use gulp tdd with phpunit
• Use dropzonejs
• Use dropzonejs within form
• Use jenssegers/laravel-rollbar for error monitoring using rollbar
• Setup registration for environtment-specific service providers
• Only report to rollbar in production environment. Because for rollbar free account, it limit the usage to 5000 reports per month.
• Use newrelic for performance monitoring
• Use rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer package to view laravel log
• Use Sami for API documentation generator
• Setup config file for Sami
• Setup helper file
• Use itsgoingd/clockwork to inspect db query, etc.
• Use yajra/laravel-datatables for fast datatables deployment
• Use built-in faker and ModelFactory to create dummy data
• Use momentjs (date library built on js)
• Use iTerm or Conemu for command line
• Use brew (Mac) or chocolatey (Windows) for non-linux package manager
• Use Intervention/image to deal with image processing if any
• Use Zizaco/entrust for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) if any
• Use pacejs for connection indicator (optional)
• Use offlinejs for offline indicator (optional)
• Use SequelPro (Mac) or Sql Yog Community (Windows) for MySql client
• Tooltip (eg. bootstrap tooltip) to add value for ux