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     [ How I Audit a New Laravel Codebase in 30 Minutes
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 ](https://mozex.dev/blog/15-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.

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