JS Libraries for Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C

This repository contains libraries converted and tested to work with the latest version of Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C (Formerly Demandware).

The libraries converted/tested here are to enhance the developer experience in the back-end and to speed up development.

Certain libraries don't work because of functions that are available in, for example, Node.JS but don't work in Salesforce Commerce Cloud because of slight differences in syntax or the unavailability of certain Objects.

With this project I hope to convert some of these libraries to work with Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C.

Converted libraries

Moment.js
Lodash
date-fns
fast-xml-parser
chance
ramda
jsPDF

Setting up the libraries in your project

Download and unpack repo content
Copy the library folders in the "cartridges" to your project (this to get Intellisense since the "require" syntax is different from the official library in most cases.)
Upload it to the dev boxes, demo, staging, development & production

Note: You do not need to add the libraries to the cartridge path if you put them on the same level as the other cartridges.

You can write code like this:
 var first = require('lodash/first');

 first([1, 2, 3]);

Converted libraries

First of all, I want to thank the creators of the libraries for all the work they have done. All I have done is rewrite the code to work with Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C, in some cases new functions will be added to the repository that is not in the original. So the documentation will start to differentiate after some time.

I will not always be monitoring updates that happen to the original repositories, so pull requests are always happily accepted to keep this repository up to date with new features or new libraries!

!!! Please note that not all scenario's have been tested and some functions may have not been converted fully. If you find any bugs, please report them with an example so we can see if it is possible to resolve. !!!

Library	Repository	Version	Notes
Moment.js	https://github.com/moment/moment/	2.10.0	A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
lodash	https://github.com/lodash/lodash	5.0.0	A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.
date-fns	https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns	v2.0.0-beta.4	date-fns provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js.
fast-xml-parser	https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser	3.12.16	Validate XML or Parse XML to JS/JSON very fast without C/C++ based libraries
chance	https://github.com/chancejs/chancejs	1.1.0	Utility library to generate anything random
ramda	https://github.com/ramda/ramda	0.26.1	A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers.
jsPDF	https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF	1.5.3	A library to generate PDFs in JavaScript.

Example code

var moment = require('moment/moment');

moment('2010-10-18').isAfter('2010-10-19')

var camelCase = require('lodash/camelCase');
var capitalize =  require('lodash/capitalize');

camelCase('__FOO_BAR__TEST');
capitalize('fRED');

var addDays = require('date-fns/addDays');
var startOfYear = require('date-fns/startOfYear');

addDays(new Date(), 5);
startOfYear(new Date());

var parser = require('fast-xml-parser/parser');

var jsonObject = parser.parse('<note><to>Tove</to></note>');

var parser = require('chance/chance');

chance.guid();

var add = require('ramda/add');

add(4)(6)

    var jsPDF = require('jsPDF')

    var doc = new jsPDF()

    doc.setFontSize(25)
    doc.text(35, 5, 'Forward loves jsPDF')

    response.setContentType('application/pdf; charset=iso-8859-1');
    response.writer.print(doc.output())

Linting

Currently the same setup is used as SFRA. You can run a linting test with:

 npm run lint

Contributing

I am always looking for more interesting libraries that we could use in Commerce Cloud but require testing or need migration.

If you yourself are unable to convert a library and want met to have a look, feel free to mail me at thomas.theunen@forward.eu.