As a developer, you would be familiar with popular frameworks and various ways of using frameworks. Laravel has the aim to take the tedium out of regular web projects and offers a lot of features such as caching, routing, authentication, model-view-controller architecture, eloquent, and much more that makes the development process easy and simple.
It is very useful while building Laravel apps with IDEs such as Netbeans, PhpStorm, etc.
It offers you additional functionality as well as desktop support.
This Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class discovering tablets as well as mobile devices.