Porting a non-framework PHP project to Laravel 5.5

Usually you write down the architecture of the website, let's say its a blog website, the most important thing for the blog is to add/create/view posts, so first steps

1. Create migration for posts table
2. Create Model, Controller, Views
3. Create Routes
4. Show all posts, create, edit and so on.

Next, let's create tags

1. Create migration for tags table
2. Create Model, Controller, View
3. Add relationships to Post and Tag Model 4 Create Routes
4. Implement functionality to add, remove, create tags.

and so on, depends on the project you have

All you need is the code (to start with) that retrieves the db results in the controller, and display results in view, every bit of 5 minutes.

Meanwhile have another controller, model, where you work on new code.

Of course have login, validation, or at least strip tags while you gear up new project.