Support is the library I use in my latest projects and packages to make things easy. It features helper functions that can be used at any time.
composer require consoletvs/support
Register the service provider to the current project (Not needed if using laravel 5.5+):
ConsoleTVs\Support\SupportServiceProvider::class
Publish the configuration:
php artisan vendor:publish
No docs are currently provided. If you want to know what functions are available just check the traits. They are organized by categories.