A framework migration dependency map connects each user and operator path to the framework convention, runtime service, datastore, configuration, and external system required to complete it.
Map behavior from entry point to durable effect
A repository package list describes installed software but does not show which dependencies matter to a user path. The map begins with routes, actions, API handlers, jobs, and operator commands, then follows each one through identity, configuration, data access, caching, queues, files, and external services until the intended durable effect appears.
Framework conventions deserve explicit rows because file-based routing, server and client boundaries, middleware, environment loading, error handling, and build output often change together. A compatibility fix should point back to the path it preserves, which prevents the migration from becoming an unreviewable collection of mechanical rewrites.
Separate target requirements from inherited habits
Some source patterns are required business behavior, while others exist only because the old framework made them convenient. The map labels each dependency as preserve, replace, remove, or decide. A human reviews every decide row with the buyer before implementation so a migration does not silently redesign authentication, caching, rendering, or deployment policy.
Production-only dependencies also need evidence. Domain and callback settings, secret names, scheduled jobs, storage permissions, edge limits, and observability hooks may never appear in a local test. The inventory records the owner and verification method for each one without placing secret values in the document.
Turn the map into branch-sized acceptance work
The implementation groups related paths into bounded branches with their own build and smoke evidence. Each branch states which map rows it changes and which current behaviors it preserves. The final cutover packet can then show that every critical dependency has a target owner, passing check, accepted difference, or explicit hold finding.
Where the service stops
Reality Contact, LLC prepares and validates the migration, but does not choose the buyer's target platform, receive secrets through the public form, approve downtime, change DNS, move production data, or initiate the final cutover without the buyer's authorization. The buyer supplies target decisions and scoped access, places production secrets, approves the verified release window, and executes or authorizes the final production cutover and any rollback. The work is software implementation and operational documentation, and it does not replace security, legal, compliance, or business-continuity advice. The buyer retains production credentials, approves downtime and data handling, and authorizes every cutover, traffic, DNS, and rollback action.
Sources: Google Cloud migration and modernization services; AWS application migration strategies.