I love Kint, but it's a little hard to get it to work perfectly within Laravel. This plugin solves that.
Laravel 5 Documentation
Laravel 4 Documentation
composer require rtconner/laravel-kint "~1.0"
'providers' => array(
'Conner\Kint\KintServiceProvider',
);
php artisan vendor:publish
Use Kint as you would normally.
d($var); // debug dump
ddd($var); // debug dump and die
s($var); // string print
sd($var); // string print and die
php artisan vendor:publish
Edit config/kint.php to configure Kint settings. See Kint documentation for details on configuration options.