I relied heavily on this website to perform the upgrade. I started with those configuration files and made some edits which should mostly be marked with a "BC:".
I did face issues with apparent motor skips which were fixed by increasing the powers to the motor drivers.
Cables are needed to interface the wires of the ANET-A8 to the Big Tree Tech (BTT) SKR v1.4 control board, while maintaining backwards compatibilty. The connectors and pinout vary between boards. The website mentioned above has documentation for this.