How This Developer Migrated a Full Laravel App in 8 Hours with Claude Code's TDD Pipeline

A developer completed a complex Laravel-to-custom-framework migration in one Claude Code session using a TDD-first approach and reusable skills. The Technique — TDD as Claude Code's Feedback Loop A developer recently migrated GoFormX, a Laravel 12 + Inertia + Vue 3 application, to a custom PHP framework called Waaseyaa in a single 8-hour Claude Code session. The key wasn't just Claude's coding ability—it was structuring the work so Claude could verify its own progress at every step. Why It Works — Concrete, Verifiable Outcomes The developer created a reusable skill called laravel-to-waaseyaa that follows this 6-phase pipeline: Scaffold — Basic package structure with composer.json and ServiceProvider TDD Core Components — Write test → watch it fail → implement → watch it pass Wire — Register services, middleware, and routes Verify — Run full test suite + CS Fixer Deploy — Add to monorepo, create GitHub repo, tag, submit to Packagist This works because every step has a concrete, verifiab