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    [ How I Audit a New Laravel Codebase in 30 Minutes 
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 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.

   Apr 13, 2026   ·  9 min read   ·  [ Laravel ](https://mozex.dev/blog/tags/laravel) [ PHP ](https://mozex.dev/blog/tags/php) [ Architecture ](https://mozex.dev/blog/tags/architecture) [ Code Review ](https://mozex.dev/blog/tags/code-review)  

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