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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Lightning

Lightning is a rich client side framework for developing device agnostic and responsive user experiences as well as supporting mobile, tablet and desktop. Unlike Visualforce it was built from the ground up with today's multi-device rich client demands in mind. It is used by Salesforce themselves and is also available to developers to build their own standalone or platform integrated UIs. Using Lightning Out developers can also integrate UIs built with Lightning into external sites and applications. An emphasis on componentization is at the heart of its architecture, and plays a key part in providing a means to implement reuse, separation of concerns and extensibility.

This chapter provides an architectural overview of the Lightning component architecture, while contrasting it with its predecessor Visualforce. New Lightning Components called Race Calendar, Race Results, Race Standings and Race Setup will allow us to explore and development process and styling using Lightning...