What are your Laravel best practices?

I recommend to you to watch this series

https://laracasts.com/series/whip-monstrous-code-into-shape

Also, you can take a look at this guide:

http://www.laravelbestpractices.com/

Although it's just a guide, and of course there are some things that you'll be advice to do it different here and you'll find yourself that others just don't apply to your project.

But it is a great starting point and it has a lot of interesting naming conventions and definitions that will save you some time to get you up and running in less time!

Hope it helps!

Also as you are learning, pay good attention to laravel conventions, naming, foreign keys, etc. It makes things a lot easier. And as mentioned, those videos are going to teach best practices.