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Salesforce Lightning Cookbook

By : Syed Chand Shah
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Salesforce Lightning Cookbook

By: Syed Chand Shah

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">The new Lightning Experience combines three major components—Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components—to enable anyone to quickly and easily create beautiful, modern enterprise apps. If you wish to meet the challenges that Lightning throws at you head-on, then look no further because this practical book will be your faithful companion and ensure that you make best use of the Lightning platform.</span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> The book starts by walking you through the three major Lightning Components and helps you enable and configure a Lightning solution. You will explore the art of working with standard components and build a basic layout for the application. Then, you will add more advanced components using the Lightning Framework. Finally, you will also build and migrate reports and dashboards to make your app look more professional. Towards the end of the book, you’ll make use of Design System to work with Salesforce data and lay out the entire page with the components that you’ve built, before integrating Visualforce in your application.</span> </span></p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Creating the Lightning pages


In this recipe, we are going to take a look at choosing the template, such as a page, record page, the home page, and how to use the standard Lightning components, the custom Lightning components, as well as the installed components, that is, the AppExchange components.

Getting ready

We use the Lightning App Builder, which is a drag and drop tool for developing the Lightning pages. Once we launch this builder, we find the standard Lightning components, and the custom Lightning components, as well as installed components.

How to do it…

In the standard Lightning components, we can use any component, such as Rich TextReport Chart, and more:

How it works…

Once we move to the Lightning App Builder, we can see the available standard Lightning components template as well as the Visualforce page. Once you develop and configure the Visualforce page for Lightning, you can add that Visualforce component to a Lightning page.

The custom components developed  by the senior Lightning...