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If you are using the Embedded Modal, you must use our Frontend JavaScript SDK. For other presentation options such as the Embedded Link or Headless, the frontend JavaScript SDK is not required. You can read more here.

Our Frontend SDK makes it easy to get started with Alloy Embedded. The Frontend SDK is used to render the Alloy Embedded modal.

Installation

Install the package with npm as seen below:

npm install alloy-frontend
# or
yarn add alloy-frontend

Alternatively, you can install the SDK as vanilla JavaScript. To do so, install it with the script tag as seen below. This should be entered in the header of your site.

<script src="https://cdn.runalloy.com/scripts/embedded.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

When interacting with the Embedded Modal via vanillaJS, you can access the Alloy library using the window object.

Rendering the Embedded Modal

Now that you have the SDK installed the first thing you'll need to do in order to render the Embedded Modal is to set your JWT. As mentioned here, a JWT is required to securely authorize the user. Once you've made a request to the Embedded APIs to retrieve your short lived token, you can set the token in the frontend SDK using the setToken method.

 Alloy.setToken("<YOUR_TOKEN>");

All frontend SDK methods require that you must first invoke setToken.

Now that you've set the token, to render the Alloy Modal, call the install method. This method tells the frontend SDK to render the Alloy Modal for the user specific to the JWT you generated.

The install method takes various arguments, many of which are optional:

Below is an example of how you can render the Alloy Modal to bulk install all workflows in an integration:

Alloy.install({
  integrationId: "YOUR_INTEGRATION_ID",
  callback: () => { console.log(); },
  alwaysShowAuthentication: true,
  hide: false,
  title: "My Cool Shopify Integration"
});

You can also prompt the user to install select workflows by their workflowIds by specifying the workflowIds parameter.

Alloy.install({
  workflowIds: ["YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID", "YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID"],
  callback: () => { console.log(); },
  alwaysShowAuthentication: true,
  hide: false,  // optional
  title: "Cool Alloy Workflows" 
});

Updating a Workflow

When a new workflow version is released that is newer than the currently installed version, you'll often want to prompt users to upgrade to the latest version.

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Updating Workflows

You can tell when a workflow needs to be updated by comparing the payload returned from the List Integrations or List Workflows endpoints. When the version is greater than the installedVersion value, you should prompt the user to update their workflow.

To update a workflow, invoke the update method. This method allows you to edit a workflow and accepts the same params as install. The edit method does not accept an integrationId and only works with workflowIds.

Alloy.update({
  workflowIds: ["YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID", "YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID"],
  callback: () => { console.log(); },
  alwaysShowAuthentication: true,
  hide: false,
  title: "Cool Alloy Workflows" 
});

Note that the update method does not allow you to specify a version to update to. Instead, it defaults to whatever the most recently released version (as specified by the version key in the List Workflows endpoint).

Editing a Workflow

You may want to allow a user to edit a workflow after they have installed it. For example, let’s say our merchant installed a workflow that sends them a message in Slack every time an event happens. This workflow requires them to customize the "channel" parameter of the Slack integration (i.e. the user needs to select the channel to send messages to in Slack).

Now let's assume the user decides they want to change their selection after the fact. The edit method allows you to present the modal again so that they can do just that.

Alloy.edit({
  workflowIds: ["YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID", "YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID"],
  callback: () => { console.log(); },
  alwaysShowAuthentication: true,
  hide: false,
  title: "Cool Alloy Workflows" 
});

The edit method does not accept an integrationId and only works with workflowIds.

List all Workflows

You can list all workflows for a user by invoking the getWorkflows method as seen below.

Alloy.getWorkflows();

List all Integrations

You can list all integrations for a user by invoking the getIntegrations method as seen below.

Alloy.getIntegrations();

Deactivate a Workflow

You can deactivate a workflow by workflowId or name using the deactivate method as seen below.

Alloy.deactivate({
  workflowId: "YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID"
});

// OR

Alloy.deactivate({
  workflowName: "Shopify to Snowflake"
});

Activate a Workflow

Similarly, you can activate (or reactivate) a workflow by its workflowId or name using the deactivate method as seen below.

Alloy.reactivate({
  workflowId: "YOUR_WORKFLOW_ID"
});

// OR

Alloy.reactivate({
  workflowName: "Shopify to Snowflake"
});