How to call Standard REST service in POST request using JSforce?

Question

I am using JSforce, a module of Node.js for Salesforce. The login credentials are obviously not correct in this script but they are correct in original script and they are working fine. Here is app.js

var http = require('http');
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
var jsforce = require('jsforce');
var conn = new jsforce.Connection({
oauth2 : {
// you can change loginUrl to connect to sandbox or prerelease env.
loginUrl : 'loginURl',
clientId : 'client_id',
clientSecret : 'secret_id_35686',
redirectUri : 'localhost:4000/'
}
});
var username = 'username';
var password = 'passowrd';
app.set('view engine', 'pug');
//body to be sent for post
var body = {
Auth0__Id: 'test_id',
us__c : 'Pending - New Hire',
Recope : '012F0000001E1lvIAC',
};
conn.login(username, password, function(err, userInfo) {
if (err) { return console.error(err); }
app.get('/forms', function(req, res){
res.render('form.pug', { check : conn.accessToken });
});
// this is where the problem is in my opinion
var options = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};
conn.apex.post(conn.instanceUrl +"/services/data/v36.0/sobjects/SFDC_Employee__c/", body, options, function(err, res) {
if (err) { return console.error(err); }
console.log("response: ", res);
});
}); app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 4000);
app.listen(app.get('port'));

Here is the link to JSforce Post Apex Instructions https://jsforce.github.io/jsforce/doc/Apex.html#post. Here is the example of JSforce with Apex Rest API. https://jsforce.github.io/document/#apex-rest

Is it necessary for me to include "options" parameter for defining metadata and headers? If yes! How can I do it? I think I am not defining it the right way?. When I run this script I get this error.

{ [NOT_FOUND: The requested resource does not exist] name: 'NOT_FOUND', errorCode: 'NOT_FOUND' }

Answer 1

SFDC has two ways of exposing REST API

1)Custom apex Built

2)Standard REST API

You are trying to use JSForce for apex built while your endpoint is of Standard REST API .

Use the below for standard REST API to create records

// Single record creation
conn.sobject("SFDC_Employee__c").create({
Auth0_Id__c: 'sfnewcheckst_d',
Status__c: 'Pending - New Hire',
RecordTypeId: '012F00000lvIAC'
}, function(err, ret) {
  if (err || !ret.success) { return console.error(err, ret); }
     console.log("Created record id : " + ret.id);
   // ...
 });