Guidance on Category management

I'm at the early stages of a project and i'm trying to figure out the best way to go about category management.

I'm building an e-commerce platform for antiques. There's a large number of categories, about 400, going up to 3 levels deep, (root level plus 2 child levels), so a nested tree.

I've searched and found some packages that provide functionality around what i need.

Primarily: Laravel Nested Set: https://github.com/lazychaser/laravel-nestedset Baum: https://github.com/etrepat/baum Laravel Nestable: https://github.com/atayahmet/laravel-nestable

I'm still pretty new to laravel and what I don't want to do is implement something more complicated than it needs to be, or doesn't do what what I need.

My specific requirements are:

1. Sellers can assign categories to antiques using a chained select plugin e.g http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/chained

2. I can create menus based on categories,

3. I can create breadcrumbs using categories.

Anyone have any experience using the above packages or any ideas in general for getting started with category management?

Thanks!