Controller for Laravel 5 that loads views from the filesystem based on the URL

PageController.php

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

class PageController extends Controller
{

    /**
     * Loads page from the filesystem
     * @param  String $page
     * @return Response
     */
    public function page($page = 'index')
    {
        $file = 'pages/'.$page;
        $view = view()->exists($file);

        if (!$view) {
            // Try index
            $file = 'pages/'.$page.'/index';
            $view = view()->exists($file);
        }

        if($view) {
            return view($file);
        }

        return abort(404);
    }

}

routes.php

<?php

	Route::any('/{page?}', 'PageController@page')
		// Accept slashes in parameter
		->where('page', '(.*)');