/salesforce-explorer

An electron app for navigating Salesforce metadata

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Salesforce Explorer

This is an electron app using the jsforce library to explore a Salesforce org. Think of it like Workbench, but for your desktop. This is a prototype and a work in progress.

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Getting Started

  1. Install the dependencies using npm:
npm instal

  1. Create a connected app in a Salesforce org. You can create a new developer org here, and there are instructions for setting up a connected app here. You will want to add the grants for api access. For a callback url you can use: https://salesforce-explorer-redirect-uri.localhost.com/.

  2. Create a config file config.json in your root. It should look like this:

{
    "authorize_url": "https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize",
    "access_token_url": "https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token",
    "client_id": "<<<FILL THIS IN WITH YOUR CONSUMER ID>>>",
    "redirect_uri": "https://salesforce-explorer-redirect-uri.localhost.com/",
    "scopes": ["refresh_token", "api"],
    "extra": {
        "response_type": "code"
    }
}

Note that client_id will be filled in with the consumer id provided by your connected app, which you created in the previous step.

  1. Run the app in development mode:
npm start

Packaging

In order to package an app that you can run locally:

npm run make

This will prepare a binary on your local machine that you can run.