How I Audit a New Laravel Codebase in 30 Minutes
When a client asks me to look at their Laravel application, I don't start by reading code. I run a specific sequence of checks that tells me more in 30 minutes than reading source files for a full day would. This isn't a full audit. It's triage. After working with Laravel for over a decade, I've found that a handful of structural checks reveal 80% of the problems. The patterns are surprisingly consistent. Here's the exact process I follow.