Best Practices for Custom Helpers in Laravel 5

Question

I would like to create helper functions to avoid repeating code between views in Laravel 5:

view.blade.php

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Answer 1

In laravel 5.3 and above, the laravel team moved all procedural files (routes.php) out of the app/ directory, and the entire app/ folder is psr-4 autoloaded. The accepted answer will work in this case but it doesn't feel right to me.

So what I did was I created a helpers/ directory at the root of my project and put the helper files inside of that, and in my composer.json file I did this:

...
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "database"
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/"
    },
    "files": [
        "helpers/ui_helpers.php"
    ]
},
...

This way my app/ directory is still a psr-4 autoloaded one, and the helpers are a little better organized.

Hope this helps someone.