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In laravel you can make classes anywhere. I actually don't have a problem with controllers collecting things and putting things together for display, but if you find yourself do that so much that you need to reuse something of that logic then yeah you need another layer. I would look into something like the Decorator Pattern.
A decorator pattern may be what you're looking for. This was a nice package https://github.com/robclancy/presenter i'm not sure if it supports L5
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