Canvas Developer Guide
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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:
- 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 org. You can either:
- Use an external client app for your canvas app (recommended).
- Use a connected app for your canvas app.
- Test the app in the Canvas App Previewer.
- Deploy the Web app to Heroku.
- Package and upload the canvas app.
- Install the canvas app in another Salesforce org 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.