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# Quick Start—Advanced

This advanced quick start shows you how to get started with more of the Canvas features. It takes you step-by-step through the process of creating, packaging, uploading, installing, and running a canvas app.

The sample canvas app is a “hello world” Web page that calls the Canvas SDK to display the current user’s name.

In this example, you:

-   Clone the “hello world” app from GitHub.
-   Run the app on a local Web server.
-   Expose the Web app as a canvas app in your Salesforce development org. You can either:

    -   Use an external client app for your canvas app (recommended).
    -   Use a connected app for your canvas app.

        **note:** In Spring ’26, the ability to create new connected apps is disabled by default. We recommend using [external client apps](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.external_client_apps.htm) for all new Canvas integrations. To enable creation of new connected apps, contact Salesforce Customer Support.

-   Test the app in the Canvas App Previewer.
-   Deploy the Web app to Heroku.
-   Package and upload the canvas app.
-   Install the canvas app in another Salesforce org and run it as a user would.

The steps in this quick start assume you’re using Windows. You can use another OS, but there might be some minor differences in the steps.

-   **[Prerequisites](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-prereqs.md)**  


    Get the appropriate access and tools to complete the quick start.

-   **[Clone the Project from GitHub](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-clone-the-project.md)**  


    The “hello world” sample project is part of the Canvas SDK, which is located on GitHub. From GitHub, clone the project to make a copy of it on your local machine.

-   **[Run the Web App Locally](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-run-the-app-locally.md)**  

-   **[Create the Canvas App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-intro-create.md)**  


    To create a canvas app, you need the Customize Application and Modify All Data user permissions.

-   **[Configure Who Can Access the Canvas App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-intro-config-access.md)**  


    To configure access for specific users, update the policies and profiles for the corresponding external client app or connected app.

-   **[Deploy the Web App to Heroku](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-upload-app-to-heroku.md)**  


    After you run the web app locally and test it as a canvas app, deploy the web app to Heroku and run it from there.

-   **[Deploy the Canvas External Client App to an Org](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-deploy-canvas-app.md)**  


    Deploy and retrieve your Canvas integration for the external client app with Metadata API. The Canvas plugin has its own settings files and policies file.

-   **[Update the Canvas App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-update-canvas-app-heroku.md)**  


    In this step, you update the canvas app to run the “hello world” app that’s now running on Heroku.

-   **[Package the Canvas App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-intro-package.md)**  


    Packaging is the first step in making your canvas app available for installation in another org.

-   **[Configure Who Can Access the Installed Canvas App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-config-who-can-access-installed-canvas-app.md)**  


**See Also**  


-   [Introducing Canvas](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/introducing/canvas-framework-intro.md)
-   [Prerequisites](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/canvas-framework/guide/quick-start-prereqs.md)