jsForceInAction

This project is an example usage of the jsForce library.

##setup Install node, grunt-cli, and bower.

https://nodejs.org/en/ http://gruntjs.com/getting-started http://bower.io/#install-bower

You will also need redis, a local key value store

http://redis.io/download

After installation start redis, the default port is used in the application.

<Install Location>/redis/current/src/redis-server

Run npm install and bower update

cd jsForceInAction
npm install
bower update

You will need to create a connected app for OAuth credentials for Salesforce. See this blog post for instructions on getting that information. https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/2015/08/creating-jquery-application-using-rest-api.html

Copy the clientId and secret and populate the values under the 'app.key' and 'app.secret' properties.

server/config/environment/development.json

Set two environment variables. Note that you will need to update the NODE_PATH to match your local install directory.

export NODE_PATH=development
export NODE_PATH=/Users/gbockus/local:/Users/gbockus/local/lib/node_modules:/Users/gbockus/github/jsForceInAction/server

Execute the grunt serve command

grunt serve

Open a browser to https://localhost:21000

More Info

The part of this application that relates to jsforce can be found in the following files:

server/services/SalesforceService.js
server/services/SalesforceService.spec.js

The SalesforceService.js file is where jsforce is being integrated with bluebird promised and used to interact with Salesforce. The SalesforceService.spec.js file is where the service function are being tested.