Migrating Your Content Management System (CMS) Assets With MongoDB and Node.js

Content platforms evolve as business strategies shift. At MongoDB, we embraced external publishing platforms like Dev.to, Medium, The Polyglot Developer, etc. to better engage developer communities, requiring us to redistribute content while maintaining our existing CMS data in MongoDB.

To support our multi-platform publishing strategy, we created a system to publish content between our MongoDB CMS and external platforms. As a result, we needed to migrate the content we had in our CMS to its new home. The migration process included exporting the written content stored in MongoDB and downloading a copy of the media assets that were stored on third-party servers.

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the export process to get the job done with as little friction as possible.