Laravel
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework.
What detecting Laravel tells you about a site
Laravel is the dominant modern PHP framework, and it announces itself through cookies. The unmistakable pair is an XSRF-TOKEN cookie alongside a laravel_session cookie (the session name often customised but the XSRF-TOKEN is canonical). Add Laravel's distinctive verbose error pages in non-production, and Vite/Mix asset-manifest paths. Detecting it tells you an opinionated, well-structured PHP application built by a team that values developer ergonomics and the Laravel ecosystem — typically a SaaS, an agency product or a startup that wanted Rails-like productivity on PHP.
Laravel in a real-world stack
When you find Laravel, it rarely travels alone. MySQL or PostgreSQL behind it, Vite for asset building, and frequently Inertia.js + Vue/React or Livewire for the front end.
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Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework.
Categories: Web frameworks
Quick facts
How we detect Laravel
Sourcemap Explorer carries 2 fingerprint signals for Laravel, spread across 2 channels — cookie and javascript global. The exact patterns are listed below, and you can replay each one in Chrome DevTools to confirm a match by hand.
Each signal alone is rarely conclusive — Sourcemap Explorer cross-references all of them and weights by confidence. You can reproduce any of these checks yourself in Chrome DevTools.
Cookies set by the platform. Visible in DevTools → Application → Cookies.
laravel_session
Window-level global the technology installs on page. Reproducible by typing the path into the DevTools console.
window.Laravel
Implies
When Laravelis detected, Sourcemap Explorer also marks the following technologies as present (Wappalyzer's implies graph).
FAQ
How do I check if a website is using Laravel?
Open the page in Chrome, click the Sourcemap Explorer toolbar icon, and read the Stack tab. Laravel's specific fingerprints here are cookie and javascript global, and the popup flags Laravel whenever any combination of them is found. The same checks can be reproduced manually in DevTools — see the "How we detect" section above.
What Laravel version can Sourcemap Explorer detect?
Laravel ships as a hosted web frameworks rather than a bundled npm package, so version-specific detection isn't always possible. Where the platform leaks a version in response headers (`X-Powered-By`, `Server`, generator meta tags) we surface it; otherwise we report presence only.
Is Laravel open source?
Yes, Laravel is open source. The license details are listed on the official site (https://laravel.com), and the codebase typically lives on a public source-control host.
Where can I read more about Laravel?
Official site: https://laravel.com. For Sourcemap Explorer's detection guide, see the deep-dive link below or the related guides in the cross-link section.
Detected by Sourcemap Explorer
Open the popup on any page running Laraveland you'll see the exact version pulled from the bundled package.json when sourcemaps are exposed.