Yes, you can.

Really, there is no need to use Laravel's migrations if you don't want to or don't feel the need to. Laravel works with existing databases. In fact, the migration are not coupled to anything else in Laravel but are totally stand-alone.

The advantage for using migrations is that the database structure can also be tracked in version control and that you can recreate the exact same database structure after a fresh install or for unit testing.

But yeah, feel free to use whatever you want to create the database. However you do it, you need to create the models for the tables in the db manually anyway.

okay thanks man