Book Image

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

Building a basic Lightning user interface


Before we dive into the more complex components included in the sample code for the FormulaForce application, let's first create a simple Lightning Application to better understand the architecture of Lightning. Think of a Lightning Application as a container for your UI, essentially your HTML markup. Containers are effectively things you can navigate to in the browser, they get their own URL based on the name you give them.

Note

As we will explore later in the chapter, Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile are also containers built by Salesforce in the same way as the example that follows.

If you want to follow along with the next few steps, ensure you have installed the Force.com IDE with support for Lightning Components. We will be taking a closer look at the Force.com IDE features around Lightning later in this chapter.

Follow these steps to create your first Lightning Application:

  1. Ensure that you are using a Developer Edition org with My Domain...