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ecars
Sample application for Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Platform runtime and compute capabilities. Part of the sample gallery. Electric car manufacturer use case. Get inspired and learn best practices.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
In the JavaScript file, we have SF CLI commands, Heroku CLI commands, as well as Linux commands to perform automation. This is an example of a robust use case for devs on what you can do with a node script. Julian, the developer who authored the script, used the Shelljs package (you can check out this powerful library here – note the weekly downloads!) because it provides the ability to write an automation that can run in both Windows and Unix platforms. It is an “implementation of Unix shell commands on top of the Node.js API” which you can review in more detail on the README here.
To start, let’s review the steps for Automated Deployment as also listed on the readme section in the Github repo. Julian has created a script (a Node.js program that will make this process easier) to get this up and running in the Salesforce and Heroku platforms. All of the installation pre-reqs, keys, and steps to configure your operating system before we move forward with deployment can be found here.
So how do we do this? First, the configuration information data gets sent from Salesforce to the Heroku microservice. Heroku is using Node.js and a few libraries/modules to achieve this—specifically, Fastify, PDFmake, and JSforce. One of the beauties of Heroku is the ability to combine all of these libraries to build powerful applications for a variety of use cases. Now some descriptions of each library: