Of all the things I've learned about software development, the single most important one is to keep things simple. It's often technologically fun to craft more complex solutions, especially when learning new technology stacks. I promise, however, the more complex the solution, the harder it is to debug when it fails. Because code is only one option for creating logic on the platform, maintaining simplicity not only means keeping code simple, but also not using code unless we need to. Knowing where to look for implemented logic can be anything but simple. The solution, however, is as maddeningly simple as it is difficult—always develop declaratively, falling back to code only as a last resort. Application developers cannot just be code-warriors, but instead must be knowledgeable and comfortable with the vast array of declarative tools provided by Salesforce. Additionally, we must keep up with the new improvements and features each of the yearly releases bring three times a...
Mastering Application Development with Force.com
By :
Mastering Application Development with Force.com
By:
Overview of this book
Force.com is an extremely powerful, scalable, and secure cloud platform, delivering a complete technology stack, ranging from databases and security to workflow and the user interface. With salesforce.com's Force.com cloud platform, you can build any business application and run it on your servers.
The book will help you enhance your skillset and develop complex applications using Force.com. It gets you started with a quick refresher of Force.com's development tools and methodologies, and moves to an in-depth discussion of triggers, bulkification, DML order of operations, and trigger frameworks. Next, you will learn to use batchable and schedulable interfaces to process massive amounts of information asynchronously. You will also be introduced to Salesforce Lightning and cover components—including backend (apex) controllers, frontend (JavaScript) controllers, events, and attributes—in detail.
Moving on, the book will focus on testing various apex components: what to test, when to write the tests, and—most importantly—how to test. Next, you will develop a changeset and use it to migrate your code from one org to another, and learn what other tools are out there for deploying metadata. You will also use command-line tools to authenticate and access the Force.com Rest sObject API and the Bulk sObject API; additionally, you will write a custom Rest endpoint, and learn how to structure a project so that multiple developers can work independently of each other without causing metadata conflicts.
Finally, you will take an in-depth look at the overarching best practices for architecture (structure) and engineering (code) applications on the Force.com platform.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Application Development with Force.com
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
A Conceptual Overview of Application Development on the Salesforce1 Platform
Architecting Sustainable Triggers Using a Trigger Framework
Asynchronous Apex for Fun and Profit
Lightning Concepts
Writing Efficient and Useful Unit Tests
Deploying Your Code
Using, Extending, and Creating API Integrations
Team Development with the Salesforce1 Platform
My Way – A Prescriptive Discussion of Application Development on Salesforce1
Index
Customer Reviews