Migrating Laravel to Symfony Without Rewriting Your Domain

Short summary

Framework migrations become expensive only when business logic is tightly tangled with framework dependencies. Before migrating Laravel to Symfony, extract domain rules and use cases into framework-agnostic classes using hexagonal architecture patterns. Once this separation exists, the actual migration is straightforward—just replacing framework adapters—a weekend project instead of a multi-month rewrite.

• •Most migration costs come from decoupling business logic from framework code, not from the framework swap itself
• •Refactor domain code to be framework-agnostic using hexagonal architecture before starting the migration
• •Once decoupled, the actual migration is low-risk—only framework-specific adapters need rewriting

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