TLDR; Want StackPHP middleware in Laravel 5.0? Try barryvdh/laravel-stack-middleware Middleware and Laravel 4 In version 4.1, Laravel introduced compatibility with StackPHP middleware. As Laravel uses the Symfony HttpFoundation and the Application class implements the HttpKernelInterface, it made sense to support this. This made it easy to use middlewares from StackPHP, just like in Symfony/Silex
