Migrating Laravel to Symfony Without Rewriting Your Domain

When the domain is decoupled, swapping frameworks is an adapter rewrite. What moves, what stays, and how to ship it one route at a time.

venerdì 3 luglio 2026 New tab

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Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework

Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools

Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub

You've been handed the ticket everyone dreads: move the app off Laravel and onto Symfony. Maybe the team standardized on Symfony. Maybe a Messenger-and-Doctrine shop acquired you. Maybe someone decided Eloquent's global scopes had cost enough Friday nights.