A Laravel application is built to view Twilio account usage using the Twilio API. The application has a single route that follows the pattern '/twilio/usage/{recordLimit}/{timePeriod?}' with two route parameters: recordLimit and timePeriod. It uses the Twilio PHP Helper Library to retrieve Twilio usage records, filter them based on the value of the two route parameters, and render them in the dashboard. The application is scaffolded using Laravel's create-project command and has environment variables set for authentication with Twilio. The application uses Composer to install required dependencies and Vite to build the Vue component. It also uses Tailwind CSS to style the template.