jostmansfdc / hikerstrailbuddy

Public facing web app to send messages ending up in the receiving hikerstrailbuddywatch Salesforce Lightning app.

Hikers' Trail Buddy

About

Heroku demonstration app forked from Bear Watch. This Hikers' Trail Buddy App is based on trail Build an Instant Notification App and will work as the end users' app to send messages to a control UI on the Lightning Platform.

Find the Instruction Lightning Platform Control UI App repository here: TBD

Instructions

1. make sure you have the same version of node.js

$ node --version
v8.9.1

package.json --> engines --> node

"engines": {
    "node": "8.9.x"
}

2. Create an Heroku app

$ heroku create --app your-heroku-app-name

3. Create a connected app in your salesforce org, and set the values as per below.

Login to Salesforce --> Setup --> Apps --> App Manager --> New Connected App

• Connected App Name: Hiker's Trail Buddy App
• API Name: Hikers_Trail_Buddy_App
• Contact Email: your email address
• Enable OAuth Settings: Yes
• Callback URL: https://your-heroku-app-name.herokuapp.com/auth/callback
• Selected OAuth Scopes: Access and manage your data (api)

Click the save button and copy the Callback URL, Consumer Key and the Consumer Secre for later use.

set a secret key of you choice

server/config.js --> config.server --> sessionSecretKey

config.server = {
  sessionSecretKey : 'randomcomplicatedstringofcharacters0123456789'
};

deploy to Heroku

$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
$ cat db_init.sql | heroku pg:psql --app app_name
$ heroku config:set domain=https://test.salesforce.com
$ heroku config:set apiVersion=v42.0
$ heroku config:set callbackUrl=*your callbackUrl from before*
$ heroku config:set consumerKey=*your consumerKey from before*
$ heroku config:set consumerSecret=*your consumerSecret from before*
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open --app your-heroku-app

Additional information about the original Bear Watch

About

Heroku demonstration app for the "Build an Instant Notification App" Trailhead project (an introduction to platform events).

This application uses the following dependencies (non-exhaustive):

• Salesforce Node client a Node library for Force.com OAuth 2.0 authentication and data interactions.
• Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS).

Credits

• Background image source: https://w-dog.net
• Footprint image source: http://icons8.com