Migrating to Remix

Migrations are never easy. Moving an existing code base to a new framework comes with difficulties and may involve a lot of refactoring. Remix is no exception, but some strategies may make a migration less painful, depending on the existing application architecture. In this section, we will discuss different migration strategies for Remix. Let’s start by reviewing a migration from a non-React app.

Migrating non-React apps to Remix

Migrating from a non-React app to Remix is a challenging task and may be very time-consuming, depending on the size of the existing application. The complexity of a migration usually increases with ongoing feature development. Most of the time, we may be unable to freeze feature development and bug fixes while migrating. This results in having to migrate existing code and features to Remix while also having to implement new features in both the old and new applications.

One solution may be to run the new and old applications...