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Instructions ​

  1. Clone the following Node.js project from GitHub: https://github.com/heroku-examples/lumina-solar-api
  2. Create an Heroku application, provision a Heroku Postgres add-on, and deploy the Node.js API project using Git

💡 Tip: Use your username as prefix for app name to make it unique

jduque-lumina-solar

💡 Tip: For local development you can fetch the database configuration by running:

heroku config --shell > .env

  1. Import the database schema using by running
npm run setup
  1. Seed the database using
node data/seed.js
  1. Verify the Node.js API is working by running: heroku open
  2. On your Salesforce org, create an External Credential with a Named Principal and then a Named Credential for the Node.js API project
  3. Create a Permission Set allowing the Named Principal
  4. Create an External Service that uses the Named Credential and fetch the api spec using the relative url:

eg: https://jduque-lumina-api-08992d919b13.herokuapp.com/api-docs/json

  1. On your Salesforce org, create a Flow or Apex Class that executes the External Service and displays the systems data using the getApiSystems method.