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fruitcake/laravel-debugbar
Debugbar for Laravel (Integrates PHP Debug Bar)
A Laravel package that integrates PHP Debug Bar into your app, injecting a toolbar into HTML responses with panels for queries, routes, views, events, cache, mail, and more. It's the de facto standard debugging overlay for Laravel — nearly every Laravel developer has used it. If you're building Laravel apps and don't have this installed locally, you're debugging blind.
The query panel is genuinely useful: shows every SQL query with bindings, timing, and an EXPLAIN button — you'll catch N+1s in minutes rather than hours. Octane support works out of the box in v4, which was a real pain point in v3 and is now handled correctly. The collector architecture is clean — adding a custom collector is straightforward and the existing ones (HttpClient, Jobs, Pennant, Inertia) show they've kept pace with the Laravel ecosystem. Clockwork compatibility is a nice touch for teams that prefer that workflow.
Request storage leaks data by design — the docs warn about it but it's still a footgun if someone deploys with DEBUG=true to a staging environment that's publicly accessible. The toolbar injects jQuery and FontAwesome into your page, which is fine for debugging but means you need to remember to disable vendor assets if you're profiling frontend performance. No support for async/queue worker debugging — you can see dispatched jobs, but there's nothing for inspecting what happens inside the worker process. The Twig integration is a third-party bridge dependency, not first-class, so it lags behind on updates.