The Laravel News site has posted an in-depth look at two packages Laravel users can implement to add in role/permission management: Bouncer and Laravel-permission.

Roles and permissions are an important part of many web applications. Laravel historically had a lot of packages for them, and improved the core code as well. So what is the situation on this market today? What packages are the best to use? I’ve picked two.

The post starts off by sharing a few reasons why you might even need these packages with the functionality that Laravel already includes. Most of the reasoning comes from the fact that the framework allows for checks but doesn't provide role/permission management. It then gets into what each of the package provide, how to install them and some example code to put them to use. It also looks at the database structure behind them and how they use that to store the authorization data.