Dynamics Proxy

This is a dev tool that provides an authenticated proxy to Dynamics server using a cookie.

The tool can be either installed globally or run directly.

The dynamics url defaults to https://resco.crm4.dynamics.com/ and can be changed with --url command line argument.

The proxy listens, by default, at http://localhost:6001. The port can be changed using --port command line argument.

Quick Start

To install globally

npm install -g @resconet/dynamics-proxy

Then, run with

dynamics-proxy

To run without installing globally

npx @resconet/dynamics-proxy

Command line arguments

--url https://custom.url changes the dynamics url to proxy

--port 3000 changes the port at which the proxy listens

Building and Contributing

This tool is built using nx.dev tools.

To build, run

nx build dynamics-proxy

The output is in dist/packages/dynamics-proxy. From there, the library can be published.

About implementation

The tool uses Electron to open up the Dynamics app so that the user can log in. After login, the cookie is aquired and used in proxy. For proxy, Express server is used with express-http-proxy middleware.