Getting Started

Aloha! Let’s test out running Frigg locally by cloning and installing a quick start template app.

Prerequisites

You'll need to do the following before continuing:

• Make sure you have

• Create a free hosted MongoDB cluster through OR locally

  • You'll need to create a db admin user and you'll want your connection string.

Overview

Create Frigg App will generate a Frigg application that within a few minutes is deployable to your own infrastructure accounts. Let's get Create Frigg App going and unpack the "magic" as we go.

Frigg Explained to Developers

Simply put- Frigg is what you would build into your product if you had unlimited resources and time, with the added benefit of being Open Source, where it's not just you but a community of developers collaborating to solve the same core set of problems over and over again. Something you could never do internally.

The Frigg Framework is an opinionated integration framework built with modern software development teams in mind. The aim of the framework is to have you up and running out of the box with a flexible set of tools to help rapidly add integrations to your software that your end users can manage individually without any intervention.

The framework handles integration listing, authentication, and configuration "out of the box," built on a scalable serverless architecture with a growing library of prebuilt API Modules to greatly reduce time to wow. Along with the core "out of the box" features, the framework contains primitives to help address and flex to any use case.

Navigating the Docs

We've got a lot to unpack! These docs should be your go-to resource for all things Frigg related. Over time, there will doubtless be other properties and places (courses?) where you'll get more deep dives into topics and example implementations (and we expect example implementations contributed by the community?), but for now, this is the place.

In general, there are five main areas of the docs

^ Here you'll find Quick Start tutorials and examples, along with deeper dive documentation on how to develop integrations with Frigg.

^ This is the main area where you'll find documentation around all Frigg concepts

^ Here's where we lay out how to get involved in contributing to the Frigg core project. And oh boy are we glad to have you!

^ Ah, the ever-expanding documentation section! At some point when we've reached critical mass (read: 1,000+ API Modules), "we're going to need a bigger boat". But for now, basic docs around any specific module live here.

^ Yup, we all need support sometimes. When it comes to Frigg-related support, you've got a few options. Hit us up in those places! Or in person. Novel concept these days.

^ This is probably both the most exciting and most daunting part of the whole enterprise. So much possibility! We're using an external tool for now, so we're just linking out to there and giving a high level short-medium-long term road map on which you can anchor your expectations. Or if you want to sponsor pieces of the roadmap, you can greatly change its shape.

Contributing Developers

See for details about getting started as a Frigg contributor.

• Deeper dive into What Makes an Integration

• Reach out to Left Hook or the community for help!

• Add your own API Module

• Integrate Frigg into your existing stack

• Customize the authentication

• Add more complexity to your integration

• Think in categories

• Core is great, can't do anything without Modules

• Effectively SDKs that talk to Frigg

• Over time, more templated code and normalization and static definitions

• Frigg's backend needs to authenticate requests

• Frigg also needs to identify the user

• Frigg also needs to be authenticated to your API

Postman Collection

Use npx to use the latest generator code, and just pass it whatever you want to name your Frigg application.

Congrats! You've just successfully scaffolded and installed your Frigg application.

• Copy template

• Every Modules needs

  • API Class

API Modules are the Lego bricks that make Frigg-powered integrations develop faster. An API Module is the code that wraps your target partner's API and represents that API back to Frigg.

Frigg's library of API Modules is available for free. Translation: if your target partner's logo is in this library already, Frigg just saved your developers many hours of work, becuse these API Modules are plug n' play.

See the with categories and filtering.

• npm install @friggframework/api-module-hubspot in the backend

• Default display override by adding to ConfigManager

• Override or add helper functions by creating a HubSpotManager.js in /managers/entities

• Copy over ExampleIntegrationManager.js and corresponding test file

• Good to go!

Requirements

• Filling out the template is required. Any pull request that does not include enough information to be reviewed in a timely manner may be closed at the maintainers' discretion.

• All new code requires tests to ensure against regressions

Description of the Change

Alternate Designs

Benefits

Possible Drawbacks

Applicable Issues

• Mocks

• proxyquire

• If you're using queues...

Frigg comes out of the box with an Integration Management API

• See flow

• See postman collection/fork for your own

Any time you want to use Frigg/have Frigg talk to your own App/API, you'll need your own API module.

See the API Module Development section

View and search for all our available API Modules in our interactive library. Thanks to our friends at PartnerPage for their directory tool.

Each API Module has its own page in this documentation. Over time we'll add helpful notes about each module listed.

For any OAuth app, you'll need to create your own set of OAuth credentials to store in the ENVs of your Frigg deployment

Frigg's creators (Left Hook) are sometimes available for a live chat to discuss Frigg. Look for the HelperBot in the lower right-hand corner and click to chat!

• HubSpotIntegrationManager.js

• getExample function, add

const contacts = await this.targetInstance.api.listContacts()
return contacts.results

• Go to HubSpot, sign up for a developer account

• Create an Application

• Navigate to Settings

• OAuth

• Copy Client ID and Secret into /config/dev.json under HUBSPOT_CLIENT_ID and HUBSPOT_CLIENT_SECRET respectively

• Add http://localhost:3000/redirect/hubspot to the redirect URI

• Navigate to backend, run npm start

• Go to the dashboard and reload if you haven't yet. Tada! Your first integration

• Scoping/understanding the integration use case

• Integration Lifecycle Methods

  • Create

  • Get Config Options

  • Update

  • ReceiveNotification

  • Delete

• Eventing

  • Webhooks

  • User interaction

• Tying it all together

• Versioning

• Migrating users

• Scaling

• Long-running processes

• Syncs

• Extending UI options

• Hybrid Integrations

• Local Development vs. Contributing

• Local Development

  • Private API Modules

  • IntegrationManager (logic)

  • Events and workflows

  • Sync logic

  • UI customizations

• Contributing

  • Publishing API Modules

  • Adding to Core

• Backend

• Frontend

• Database

• Eventing

  • Polling Triggers

  • Webhooks

  • Queues
• Logging

• Retry

• Error Handling

We have an active shared Slack channel where Frigg community members can ask questions or interact.

You can .

Frigg has a fairly straightforward data model

• Currently we connect to a MongoDB cluster using Mongoose. Recommendation is MongoDB Atlas, fast and free to spin up a test cluster.

• Follow instructions to create

We have three ways to interact with Frigg's creators and community:

• Message Board —

• Slack Channel-

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

• Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people

• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences

• Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind

• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks

• Public or private harassment

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at [INSERT CONTACT METHOD]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the , version 2.1, available at .

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by .

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at . Translations are available at .

We've got a dedicated roadmap tool to help you track specifics, and to let you make suggestions. Wherever you're comfortable, since it's integrated to GitHub.

At a very high level, however, here's what we want to accomplish in the near, mid, and long terms:

Near Term Roadmap

This is in the next 3-6 months, heading into 2023.

• Rapidly add more API Modules

• Add unit tests to all core modules to harden them up for future iteration

• Simplify the install process

• Add more documentation

• Add notes for deploying using popular services

Mid Term Roadmap

In the next 6-12 months, through 2023

• Add support for major databases

  • Postgres

  • Redis

Long Term Roadmap

Sometime in the future, end state goal

• Make Frigg easily deployable with docker/kubernetes if desired

• Support multiple languages for runtime

• Optimize the primitives so Frigg is the fastest possible service

Frontend overview

Running npm start at the root of your Frigg application repo will run npm start on both the /backend and /frontend directories. Let's unpack each.

The frontend is a cookie cutter React application built with Create React App and Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI. It leverages the Frigg React component library for the Integration Management page. This is the core piece to pay attention to for your own application. You can read more about Frontend options and concepts with

We provide a very lightweight/basic user login flow and dashboard. Go ahead and try logging in or creating an account.

// Image of login screen

Note that when you attempt to log in, you will receive an error. We'll come back to this in a moment, but the TL;DR is that we need to plug in a database for the backend to talk to.

Backend overview

The backend is oriented around the serverless.com framework. When you run npm start, it runs the command to use the serverless-offline plugin. Critical to note is that this supports basic functionality (API => function invocation, or schedule => function invocation), it does not support all events that you may be relying on to power your integrations. In other words, you can run Authentication and Configuration, but the entirety of your Frigg applications' backend will not run using this command. For that, see "Running Frigg Locally."

The Backend is comprised of the following folder structure:

How it works

As you might have noticed, you use both a instance and a client side react app to access the Frigg API modules. The flow looks like this:

Last Updated 9/6/2022

This FAQ page is divided into three sections: General, Technical/Product and Non-Technical questions.

General FAQs

Node and Npm version

When you work on code in this repo, make sure you are using Node 14.x and Npm 7.20.2. Npm > 7 is needed to use npm workspaces, but there is a bug using workspaces in certain situations on Npm > 7.20.2. See here for more info: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/3637

There are different ways to switch versions of Node/NPM, here is one: