Migrating From Laravel

Status: not executed end to end. No Laravel app has been cut over by following this page yet; it flips to executed on evidence from an adopter's measured run.

Migrating from Laravel

The concept map for a Laravel app. The runbook — phases, exit conditions, stop conditions — is Migrating an existing app; this page says what each Laravel term becomes. As of 2026-11, against the current release (laravel.com/docs).

Concept map

Laravel	Ultimate
routes/web.php + a controller that returns a view	a route file: Routes and render modes
a controller that writes, a form request	an action, its input schema: Actions
an Eloquent model	an entity(): Entities and migrations
a query scope, the query builder	a query: Queries and live queries
php artisan make:migration, migrate	x db gen "<name>", then x db migrate
php artisan make:*	x g <kind> <name> (CLI reference)
a queued job	a job: Jobs and workflows
the scheduler (schedule:run)	a task: Scheduled tasks
Breeze, Fortify, Sanctum	Auth
gates and policies	a policy: Policies and authz
broadcasting (Reverb, Pusher)	a live query: Realtime
Mailables	Mail
Storage disks	Storage and uploads
Nova, Filament	Admin dashboard
lang/*.php	one flat catalog per locale: I18n
Pest, PHPUnit	Testing
php artisan serve	x dev

What does not map

Laravel	Why
PHP and its packages	Bun only. A Composer package is rewritten or bought as a service
MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server	Postgres only, by design: Home
Blade, Livewire	pages render with SolidJS; interactive parts are islands. No converter
model events and observers	no implicit hooks: the write is an action or a mutator that says what it does (Actions)
polymorphic relations (morphTo)	model each target as its own foreign key (Entities and migrations)

Schema adoption

Laravel ids are bigint ($table->id()) and timestamps are created_at / updated_at. Phase 1 of the runbook declares the existing tables with the physical-name overrides it gives, then x db gen until x verify --only drift agrees: Migrating an existing app.

Identity cutover

Laravel stores	Branch
users.password as $2y$… — bcrypt, Laravel's default driver	proceed: verified natively, rewritten as argon2id on first login (Migrating an existing app)
$argon2id$… (the argon2id driver)	proceed: rehashed when weaker than the policy
the session: an encrypted cookie keyed by APP_KEY	bridge it with your own verifier behind configureAuthenticator(), or keep the Laravel login until every user has signed in once (Auth)