Salesforce provides many ways to integrate with external systems like SOAP, Rest, Bulk API, User Interface API and so on. One of useful way to integrate any existing web applications with Salesforce is using Canvas.
For sake of this post, I’m using Nodejs application and complete source code can be found here , on my Github repository. It can be deployed on Heroku easily, however I used my local computer to run canvas. That also proves point that integration is happening via Browser and therefore canvas application can be hosted on premise and not necessarily on DMZ layer.
Step 1 : Create Connected App in Salesforce
Enable OAuth in Connected app and provide any Callback URL. Canvas app does not use callback URL however we DO NEED scope.
Next step would be enabling canvas app itself connected app along with locations where we would be using it.
