So today I decided it’s time for the app to be live on the internets!

First off, I migrated the app to heroku (pretty straightforward process, instructions can be found here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs and I wrote about migration to Heroku/Mongolab my post)

Then, of course, needed to migrate the existing local mongo database to Mongolab.

Step 1: export your local mongo database using mongodump:

In terminal, find your mongo directory and run

./mongodump or bin/mongodump

This will create a directory “dump” with all existing databases and collections

Note: if you only need to export certain databases or collections, read up the instructions on the mongo site

Step 2: import your dumped db files to Mongolab:

bin/mongorestore -h .mongolab.com: -d  -u  -p  dump/

The values for db name, port, app id can be easily found through Mongolab admin console:

As you see, once imported, your collections will be listed in the admin console.