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Getting started with the Force.com APIs for the Hackathon
With a Salesforce hackathon approaching, the guide introduces the Force.com APIs as a way to build applications using Salesforce1’s authentication, data storage, and business rule services. It compares native Salesforce1 applications, connected web applications using SOAP or REST, and three mobile patterns, including hybrid extensions, native iOS or Android clients, and a “force.com proxy” model. For hands-on setup, it recommends a free Developer Edition account and Salesforce Workbench, then explains OAuth2 web flow and password-plus-token login before showing Ruby with Restforce and Node.js with Nforce. The examples configure a Connected App, keep credentials in environment variables, query records with SOQL, and create Account records, providing a practical starting path for API integration.

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Using force.com from your Heroku apps
Force.com and Heroku, both part of the Salesforce1 platform, can be connected from Heroku applications through data synchronization or direct API access. Heroku Connect provides point-and-click, two-way synchronization between Force.com and the Postgres database attached to an app, allowing reads and writes in Postgres while changes are copied asynchronously; that latency makes it unsuitable when an immediate Force.com response is required. For synchronous access, open-source client libraries cover Force.com’s SOAP, REST, Streaming, Bulk, and Metadata APIs across languages including Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, Objective-C, and Go. The article maps libraries and packages to supported APIs, including restforce and salesforce_bulk for Ruby, nforce for Node.js, simple-salesforce for Python, mobile SDKs, and ForceCLI for scripting SOAP and Metadata operations.

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2 posts about Force.com. Every summary links to the original.

Paid picks we use ourselves. Links carry a referral code — a subscription through one earns us a commission at no extra cost to you.

Newest first

Heroku
Getting started with the Force.com APIs for the Hackathon
With a Salesforce hackathon approaching, the guide introduces the Force.com APIs as a way to build applications using Salesforce1’s authentication, data storage, and business rule services. It compares native Salesforce1 applications, connected web applications using SOAP or REST, and three mobile patterns, including hybrid extensions, native iOS or Android clients, and a “force.com proxy” model. For hands-on setup, it recommends a free Developer Edition account and Salesforce Workbench, then explains OAuth2 web flow and password-plus-token login before showing Ruby with Restforce and Node.js with Nforce. The examples configure a Connected App, keep credentials in environment variables, query records with SOQL, and create Account records, providing a practical starting path for API integration.

Heroku
Using force.com from your Heroku apps
Force.com and Heroku, both part of the Salesforce1 platform, can be connected from Heroku applications through data synchronization or direct API access. Heroku Connect provides point-and-click, two-way synchronization between Force.com and the Postgres database attached to an app, allowing reads and writes in Postgres while changes are copied asynchronously; that latency makes it unsuitable when an immediate Force.com response is required. For synchronous access, open-source client libraries cover Force.com’s SOAP, REST, Streaming, Bulk, and Metadata APIs across languages including Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, Objective-C, and Go. The article maps libraries and packages to supported APIs, including restforce and salesforce_bulk for Ruby, nforce for Node.js, simple-salesforce for Python, mobile SDKs, and ForceCLI for scripting SOAP and Metadata operations.

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