Salesloft local dev loop

SalesLoft Local Dev Loop

Overview

Set up a local development workflow for SalesLoft integrations with API mocking, environment separation, and fast iteration. SalesLoft has no official sandbox -- use test data tagging and request recording for safe development.

Prerequisites

• Completed salesloft-install-auth setup
• Node.js 18+ with Vitest
• Separate SalesLoft test workspace (recommended)

Instructions

Step 1: Create API Client Wrapper

// src/salesloft/client.ts
import axios, { AxiosInstance } from 'axios';

export function createClient(token?: string): AxiosInstance {
  return axios.create({
    baseURL: process.env.SALESLOFT_BASE_URL || 'https://api.salesloft.com/v2',
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${token || process.env.SALESLOFT_API_KEY}`,
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
  });
}

Step 2: Create Fixtures from Real API Shape

// tests/fixtures/salesloft.ts
export const mockPerson = {
  data: {
    id: 1001, display_name: 'Test User', email_address: '[email protected]',
    first_name: 'Test', last_name: 'User', title: 'Engineer',
    phone: '+1-555-0100', company_name: 'Acme Corp',
    tags: ['dev_test'], created_at: '2025-01-15T10:00:00Z',
  },
};

export const mockPeopleList = {
  data: [mockPerson.data],
  metadata: { paging: { per_page: 25, current_page: 1, total_pages: 1, total_count: 1 } },
};

export const mockCadence = {
  data: {
    id: 500, name: 'Test Outbound', team_cadence: false,
    current_state: 'active', added_stage: 'prospecting',
    cadence_framework_id: null, counts: { people_count: 10 },
  },
};

export const mockActivity = {
  data: {
    id: 2001, action_type: 'email', person_id: 1001,
    cadence_id: 500, step_id: 100, due_at: '2025-02-01T09:00:00Z',
  },
};

Step 3: Write Tests Against Real API Shape

// tests/salesloft.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
import { createClient } from '../src/salesloft/client';
import { mockPeopleList, mockCadence } from './fixtures/salesloft';

vi.mock('axios', () => ({
  default: { create: vi.fn(() => ({
    get: vi.fn(), post: vi.fn(), put: vi.fn(), delete: vi.fn(),
  }))},
}));

describe('SalesLoft People API', () => {
  it('lists people with pagination metadata', async () => {
    const client = createClient('test-token');
    vi.mocked(client.get).mockResolvedValue({ data: mockPeopleList });

    const { data } = await client.get('/people.json', { params: { per_page: 25 } });
    expect(data.metadata.paging.total_count).toBe(1);
    expect(data.data[0].email_address).toBe('[email protected]');
  });

  it('filters people by cadence membership', async () => {
    const client = createClient('test-token');
    vi.mocked(client.get).mockResolvedValue({ data: mockPeopleList });

    const { data } = await client.get('/people.json', {
      params: { cadence_id: 500, per_page: 25 },
    });
    expect(data.data.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
  });
});

Step 4: Environment Separation

# .env.development
SALESLOFT_BASE_URL=https://api.salesloft.com/v2
SALESLOFT_API_KEY=dev-token-here
SALESLOFT_TAG_PREFIX=dev_test_

# .env.test
SALESLOFT_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3001/mock
SALESLOFT_API_KEY=mock-token

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts",
    "test": "vitest",
    "test:integration": "dotenv -e .env.development vitest run --config vitest.integration.ts"
  }
}

Output

 PASS  tests/salesloft.test.ts
  SalesLoft People API
    ✓ lists people with pagination metadata (2ms)
    ✓ filters people by cadence membership (1ms)

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Solution
ECONNREFUSED	Mock server not running	Use vi.mock instead of live mock server
401 in integration tests	Token expired	Refresh dev token from SalesLoft portal
Stale mock data	API response shape changed	Record fresh responses with interceptor

Resources

• SalesLoft API Logs
• Vitest Mocking Guide

Next Steps

Proceed to salesloft-sdk-patterns for production client patterns.