Understanding PHP & Laravel codebases
Practical guides on reading, mapping and refactoring large Laravel apps — from the team building Knoten.

Read your Laravel database schema straight from the code
Migrations record how your schema was built, not what it is today. Here's how to reconstruct the real picture — tables, columns and relationships.
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Trace a request end-to-end before you change it
Before you touch that controller, know everything it touches. A practical way to follow a request through middleware, services and models — and your best defence against surprise regressions.
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