In this post I continue to improve the IonicRealty sample application I shared last week. In particular, I revisit the data access part of the application. The initial version of the application used simple mock services that weren’t really built the “Angular way”. In this article, I share two approaches to build Angular-style mock services. […]
Angular 2 and Ionic 2 Data Services
IonicRealty: New Ionic 2 Sample Application
A couple of months ago, I shared a first Ionic 2 sample app built with Ionic 2 alpha. Ionic 2 is now in beta and things have changed a bit. To stay up to date with the latest changes, I built IonicRealty, a new sample app built with Ionic 2 beta. Watch the video: In […]
Slack and Salesforce Integration – Part 2
January 12, 2016 in Heroku, Salesforce, Slack
In my previous post, I demonstrated how to access Slack from Salesforce. I shared an example showing how to use Slack Webhooks and ProcessBuilder to automatically post messages to Slack channels when specific events happen in Salesforce (for example, when the status of an opportunity changes). In this post, I cover the other side of […]
Slack and Salesforce Integration
January 8, 2016 in ProcessBuilder, Salesforce, Slack
Slack is a team collaboration application that has gained a significant amount of momentum over the last 2 years. One of the things that sets Slack apart is the simple and powerful way it can integrate with external applications (Google Drive, Twitter, Trello, or any other app). Using Incoming Webhooks, external apps can automatically post […]
Sample Application with Angular 2 and Salesforce REST Services
December 18, 2015 in AngularJS, ECMAScript 6, TypeScript
The beta version of Angular 2 was released earlier this week. Check out the announcement blog post here. The Hero Editor tutorial is a great place to start. You can write Angular 2 apps with TypeScript, plain JavaScript, or Dart, and a version of the tutorial is available for each option. I chose TypeScript which […]
Sample Ionic 2 Application with a Salesforce Back-End
October 28, 2015 in AngularJS, Cordova, Ionic, Salesforce, Sample App, Tutorial
In my previous post, I shared an Employee Directory application built with Ionic 2. In this post, I share another Ionic 2 sample application: ContactManager is similar to EmployeeDirectory, but instead of using in-memory data, it uses the Salesforce REST APIs to retrieve contacts from Salesforce. Instead of its version 1 custom module infrastructure, Angular […]
Sample Application with Ionic 2
October 26, 2015 in AngularJS, Ionic, Sample App, Tutorial
The first public alpha of Ionic 2 was announced last week at Angular Connect. Check out the announcement blog post. To experiment with Ionic 2 (and Angular 2), I created a new version of the Employee Directory application I wrote when I first explored Ionic almost two years ago. Try It Here Click here to […]
Integrating ECMAScript 6 Web Applications with Salesforce Using OAuth and REST
October 23, 2015 in ECMAScript 6, OAuth, REST, Salesforce
ForceJS is a client-side micro-library that makes it easy to integrate web or hybrid applications with Salesforce using OAuth and the Salesforce REST APIs. I recently updated ForceJS to leverage ECMAScript 6. ForceJS is now available as an ECMAScript 6 module and can be installed from npm. In this article, I’ll walk you through the […]
React University: Sample Application with React, Node.js 4, and the Lightning Design System
October 14, 2015 in Lightning Design System, React, React.js, Salesforce
React University is a sample project demonstrating how to build real-life applications with React, Node.js, and the Lightning Design System. React University is written using ECMAScript 6 at the client-side (leveraging Babel) and at the server-side (leveraging the new ES6 support in Node.js 4). Watch the video for a quick walkthrough of the application: Highlights […]
Sample Code for my Intro to ECMAScript 6 Session at Dreamforce
September 22, 2015 in ECMAScript 6
Thanks everybody for attending my “Introduction to ECMAScript 6” session at Dreamforce. The source code for the examples I used are available in this repository on Github. I also wrote this ECMAScript 6 tutorial that would be a great next step if you want to get started with ES6. Finally, the slides for a similar […]
