How to Speed Up Connect to Forge Migration With AI

This post details how the authors used AI tools to accelerate the migration of five Atlassian Marketplace apps from Connect to Forge. After manually migrating the first app and establishing migration patterns, they leveraged AI for tasks such as reworking React frontends, mapping permissions, deploying code, checking logs, building Storybook components, and performing smoke testing. Key strategies for success included documenting patterns in the repository, feeding AI current Forge documentation and using the Forge MCP, planning before execution, creating small and reviewable code diffs, and instructing AI to use only Forge UI components. The authors emphasize that AI is best suited for replicating established patterns and repetitive work, while genuinely new problems should be handled by human engineers.