About one year ago (with Laravel 4), I tried kalnoy/cruddy, frozennode/Laravel-Administrator and krafthaus/bauhaus. My opinion:

• cruddy: the most complete, is maintained, but may be difficult/dangerous to be used by some non-admin users. I don't know if a version is laravel-5 compatible.

• laravel-administrator : works, nice gui, some missing functions (to be able to create directly a foreign record - while selection of such a foreign data in another table, and no tabs - so HMI can be long if you have a lot of data). Can be used with laravel 5

• bauhaus: I had difficulties to realise the same functions that with laravel-administrator (some function might be absent, but as the documentation was not complete, it could be my fault). No laravel 5 version I think.

Since my tests, I use laravel-administrator for a small project: maybe not maintened now, but as it works and fills my need, it is a good solution for a small project. For a bigger project, and if it exists for laravel 5, cruddy could be a better choice.

Check LaraAdmin Open-source Admin Panel for Laravel with CRUD Generation and Module Manager and lot more.

Features:

• Easy One Command Installation
• Easy to Customise
• Modular Architecture
• Advanced CRUD Generation
• Schema/Module Manager
• Media Manager
• Menu Manager
• Code Editor
• Permission Control for Roles
• Modular Access Control with Field Level access like SugarCRM
• Ready to Use User Interfaces from AdminLTE Template
• Configuration for UI

Check full features on http://laraadmin.com

You can read through this article to get a very basic understanding of creating a CRUD in an admin section.

It uses Laravel 5.3 and the basic blade templates. I have created a category resource that lets you to create, edit, update and destroy categories.

http://deepdivetuts.com/basic-create-edit-update-delete-functionality-laravel-5-3

I use the Orchid package, which adds CMS functionality to Laravel, which is good for websites.

You can see them here

And an example of installing YouTube