Kentico Migration CLI

This package is a migration runner for Kentico Kontent CMS. It allows the following instructions:

• Tracking migrations in the project
• Creating new content types
• Migrating content types and content changes across types
• Rolling back any changinges

Gettings started

yarn

Migration spaces

For each Kentico space you should create a different migrations folder. You can set which migrations folder you will be using with the MIGRATION_FOLDER environment variable.

Commands

| Command | Action | | --------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | yarn migrate init | Initiate the migrations in Kontent | | yarn migrate make | Make new Kontent migrations | | yarn migrate run | Run new migrations | | yarn migrate rollback | Roll back existing migrations |

Environment Variables

To run this project you will need a number of environment variables

| Variable | Description | | ---------------- | --------------------------------- | | API_KEY | Kontent management API key | | PROJECT_ID | Kontent project ID | | ENVIRONMENT | Kontent environment | | MIGRATION_FOLDER | The name of the migrations folder | | PREVIEW_KEY | Kontent preview API key |

Implementation

This project uses Kontent Migrate all the commands used are abstractions from this library.

Use Cases

Making a new migration

Convention for migration description

• Should start with a capital letter
• Should start with an imperative mood verb

Examples:

• "Create Micro Copy content-type"
• "Add title field to Page content-type"
• "Remove description from all content-types"