This app is a showcase of the Salesforce CMS running in headless mode. The Salesforce Content Delivery API is leveraged to show a list of News articles that are authored in Salesforce CMS. You can see a live version here.
This application is built to be deployed on Heroku. Becasue the application uses Salesforce as the Identity Provider (IdP), there is some configuration that you'll need to do on your Heroku app to line everything up properly.
This app was built to be primarily run on top of the Salesforce stack. All of the following core technologies and Heroku add-ons are required:
- Salesforce Identity: the app uses a core SF org to provide authentication. Be sure to create your connected app to run (see below)
- Heroku: The app is designed to be built and run on Heroku, click the Heroku button below to get started!
- Redis: Session store is done in Heroku Redis
- Mongo DB: The relational DB bits, which is only storing user information at present, is done through Mongo DB. As of Nov 2020, mLab has removed their Heroku addon (boo!) but you can still create a free tier at Mongo Atlas. This is recommended to keep the app free to use as Object Rocket (the other Mongo addon in Heroku) doesn't have a free tier.
- React / Redux: This is a react front end with Redux for the state store. Probably doesn't need Redux specifically, but the point of building this was for me to learn, so Redux is in.
- Express: The backend is provided by Express.
Once you've deployed the application to Heroku, you'll need to configure the following environment variables:
APPURL: this is the url of your application where it's hosted (either whatever.herokuapp.com or localhost etc), used for the callback function in the auth flow.CLIENTIDandCLIENTSECRET: these are used in the auth flow for the connected app. Be sure to setup your callback url in the connected app setup to be your APPURL (where the app is hosted) /auth/callback. eg: https://adams-fullstack-cms.herokuapp.com/auth/callbackMONGOATLAS_URI: the connection string to your mongo atlas database. Note, create a DB and a collection named 'users'.API_VERSION: this is the version of the Salesforce API you wish to connect to. Min V49.0!
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