Complete guide to migrating your Drupal website to SolidStart. Leave Drupal's steep learning curve behind and get solidjs fine-grained reactivity. Free migration tool included.
You can migrate from Drupal to SolidStart for free using LeaveWP. Enter your site URL, choose SolidStart as the destination, and download your content — posts, pages, and media — in minutes. No API keys, passwords, or CLI tools required. Difficulty: Medium. Estimated time: 20-40 minutes.
Official docs: Drupal Documentation
Enterprise PHP CMS for complex content architectures. Large organizations needing complex content structures and strict access control, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Steep learning curve — requires developer expertise
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Drupal. SolidStart eliminates this issue entirely.
Fewer themes and modules compared to WordPress
With SolidStart, solidjs fine-grained reactivity — updates dom without virtual dom diffing.
Major version upgrades (e.g. Drupal 7→10) are complex migrations
Modern architectures like SolidStart are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
Slow without aggressive caching configuration
After migrating, you'll no longer need to worry about this — SolidStart takes a fundamentally different approach.
Full-stack framework for SolidJS with fine-grained reactivity. Built with JavaScript/TypeScript (SolidJS), it's performance-focused developers who want react-like syntax without virtual dom overhead.
SolidJS fine-grained reactivity — updates DOM without virtual DOM diffing
Top benchmark performance — often faster than Svelte
JSX syntax makes it approachable for React developers
File-based routing with SSR and SSG support
SolidStart is open-source and free to use. You own your code and data with no vendor lock-in. Deploy to any host that supports JavaScript/TypeScript, or use managed platforms like Vercel and Netlify for zero-config deployments.
Side-by-side comparison based on real platform characteristics
| Metric | Drupal | SolidStart |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Cost | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐ 1/5 |
| Language | PHP | JavaScript/TypeScript (SolidJS) |
| Pricing | Free (self-hosted) | Free (open-source) |
| Open Source | Yes | Yes |
Ratings are based on publicly available data, documentation, and community consensus as of 2026. Individual experience may vary.
A detailed breakdown of how your Drupal content maps to SolidStart
What may need manual attention
Custom server-side logic, third-party integrations, and platform-specific plugins will need equivalent solutions in SolidStart. The core content (text, images, metadata) transfers cleanly.
Migrate your content in three simple steps
Enter your Drupal site URL — LeaveWP connects automatically.
Select SolidStart as destination and choose content options.
Download your migrated content or preview it in your browser.
Migrating from Drupal to SolidStart makes the most sense if you're experiencing steep learning curve — requires developer expertise or outgrowing Drupal's architecture. SolidStart is best for performance-focused developers who want react-like syntax without virtual dom overhead.
You should migrate if: your Drupal site is slow, your hosting costs are climbing, you need developer flexibility, or you want to adopt a modern JAMstack architecture.
You might want to stay if: your Drupal site benefits from powerful content modeling with custom entity types and fields and you don't have JavaScript/TypeScript developers on your team.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Drupal URL, select SolidStart, and download your content. The more important question is whether SolidStart's architecture fits your team's skills and your project's long-term needs.
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