Consider a navigation menu with a bunch of links and you are trying to activate them based on the current active route name. In normal case you have to return the currentRouteName() from the controller or maybe in view composer or any other place. I have wrote a simple Laravel composer package that makes it a little bit simpler.
You can take a look it here: https://github.com/tuytoosh/active.
For installation use composer require command like this:

composer require tuytoosh/active

Then use @active() directive in your blade files.

<a href="#" class="@active('home')">Home page</a>

Without this package you have to write sth like this:

<a href="#" class="@if(Route::getCurrentRouteName() == 'home') active @endif">Home page</a>

After version 1.7.0 You are able to define an array of route patterns like this:

class="@active(['admin.dashboard', 'user.dashboard'])"

If you find it use full give a star :)
Thank you for reading.