Canvas Developer Guide

Getting Started
Introducing Canvas
Quick Start
Quick Start—Advanced
Prerequisites
Clone the Project from GitHub
Run the Web App Locally
Create the Canvas App
Configure Who Can Access the Canvas App
Deploy the Web App to Heroku
Update the Canvas App
Package the Canvas App
Upload the Canvas App Package
Install the Canvas App
Configure Who Can Access the Installed Canvas App
Using Canvas
Reference
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Quick Start—Advanced

This advanced quick start shows you how to get started with more of the Canvas features. It takes you step-by-step through the process of creating, packaging, uploading, installing, and running a canvas app. The sample canvas app is a “hello world” Web page that calls the Canvas SDK to display the current user’s name.

In this example, you’ll:
  • Clone the “hello world” app from GitHub
  • Run the app on a local Web server
  • Expose the Web app as a canvas app in your Salesforce development organization and test it in the Canvas App Previewer
  • Deploy the Web app to Heroku
  • Package and upload the canvas app
  • Install the canvas app in another Salesforce organization and run it as a user would

The steps in this quick start assume you’re using Windows. You can use another OS, but there might be some minor differences in the steps.